Passives and Middles in Mainland Scandinavian : : Microvariation Through Exponency /

Passives and Middles in Mainland Scandinavian : : Microvariation Through Exponency / / Antonio Fábregas, Michael T. Putnam.

This monograph explores the properties of passive and middle voice constructions in Norwegian and Swedish, concentrating on the linguistic variation related to these two constructions in Mainland Scandinavian. At an empirical level, we provide a detailed discussion of the morphosyntax and semantics...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
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Fábregas, Antonio,
Putnam, Michael T.,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 338
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Physical Description:1 online resource (IX, 240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Table of Contents
  • 1 Introduction – Prospects of an exponency-based syntax
  • 2 The necessity of exponents and the nature of Ʃ-structure
  • 3 Norwegian and Swedish passives: empirical facts
  • 4 Deconstructing Norwegian and Swedish passives
  • 5 Differences in the expression of middles in Norwegian and Swedish
  • 6 Extensions: anticausatives, reciprocal uses, and additional properties of exponents
  • References
  • Index

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