Passives Cross-Linguistically

Theoretical and Experimental Approaches
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-42823-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 440 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 880 g

Reihe: Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory

The chapters collected in the volume Passives Cross-Linguistically provide analyses of passive constructions across different languages and populations from the interface perspectives between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. The contributions are, in principle, all based on the background of generative grammatical theory. In addition to the theoretical contributions of the first part of this volume, all solidly built on rich empirical bases, some experimental works are presented, which explore passives from a psycholinguistic perspective based on theoretical insights. The languages/language families covered in the contributions include South Asian languages (Odia/Indo-Aryan and Telugu/Dravidian, but also Kharia/Austro-Asiatic), Japanese, Arabic, English, German, Modern Greek, and several modern Romance varieties (Catalan, Romanian, and especially southern Italian dialects) as well as Vedic Sanskrit and Ancient Greek.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Grohmann, Kleanthes K.

Matsuya, Akemi

Remberger, Eva-Maria

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editorial Foreword

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Akemi Matsuya and Kleanthes K. Grohmann

1 Long-Distance Passives by Structure Removal

Gereon Müller

2 On Passive and Perfect Participles

Peter Hallman

3 On Deontic Passives

Eva-Maria Remberger

4 Indirect Object Want-Passives in Southern Italy

Adam Ledgeway

5 Unexpected Passive Structures from Prepositional Verbs in Catalan

Isabel Crespí

6 Two Types of Passive? Voice Morphology and “Low Passives” in Vedic Sanskrit and Ancient Greek

Laura Grestenberger

7 Non-active Voices in South Asian Languages

Pritha Chandra, Gurmeet Kaur and Anindita Sahoo

8 A More Articulated Approach to Causativity Alternation

Mohamed Naji

9 Semantic and Pragmatic Implications of Passives

Akemi Matsuya

10 The Source of Passive Sentence Difficulty: Task Effects and Predicate Semantics, Not Argument Order

Caterina L. Paolazzi, Nino Grillo and Andrea Santi

11 Synthetic Passives in Early and Impaired Grammar: The View from Greek Reflexive Verbs

Arhonto Terzi

12 The Mirage of “Impaired Passives” and the Locus Preservation Hypothesis

Kleanthes K. Grohmann, Maria Kambanaros and Evelina Leivada

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kleanthes K. Grohmann, Ph.D. (2000), University of Maryland at College Park, is Professor of Biolinguistics at the University of Cyprus and the Director of the CAT Lab. He has published widely and is founding editor of the open-access journal Biolinguistics.

Akemi Matsuya, Ph.D. (2000), University of Maryland at College Park, is Professor of Linguistics at Takachiho University. She has publications in formal and applied linguistics and is one of the editors of Linguistic Journal.

Eva-Maria Remberger, Ph.D. (2003), Free University Berlin, is Professor of Romance Linguistics at the University of Vienna in Austria. Her research and publications concern grammar theoretical questions as they arise from Romance data in a comparative synchronic and diachronic view.