Date: 18-Apr-2006 From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com> Subject: Voice and Grammatical Relations: Tsunoda, Kageyama (Eds)
Title: Voice and Grammatical Relations
Subtitle: In Honor of Masayoshi Shibatani
Series Title: Typological Studies in Language 65
Published: 2006
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Editor: Tasaku Tsunoda, University of Tokyo
Editor: Taro Kageyama, Kwansei Gakuin University
Hardback: ISBN: 9027229767 Pages: 342 Price: U.S. $ 150.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027229767 Pages: 342 Price: Europe EURO 125.00
Abstract:
This volume presents thirteen original papers dealing with various aspects of two related areas of research of major concern to linguists of all theoretical persuasions: voice and grammatical relations. The papers are written from typological, functional, and cognitive perspectives, and contain a number of general studies as well as studies focusing on specific issues, and offer a wealth of data from a broad range of languages. The volume provides up-to-date discussions of an array of issues of theoretical concern, including the nature of grammatical relations, voice in agent/patient systems, the expression vs. non-expression of participant roles, and personal vs. impersonal passives. The papers in the volume demonstrate that investigations into the nature of voice and grammatical relations can still yield fresh theoretical and typological insights.
Table of contents
List of contributors ix-x
Preface xi-xiii
Selected bibliography of Masayoshi Shibatani xv-xviii
The Hawaiian passive/imperative particle Kenneth William Cook 1-14
Indiscrete grammatical relations: The Lunda passive T. Givón and Boniface Kawasha 15-41
Valency sets in Kashmiri Peter Edwin Hook and Omkar N. Koul 43-84
Property description as a voice phenomenon Taro Kageyama 85-114
Dimensions of defocusing Ronald W. Langacker 115-137
On grammatical relations as constraints on referent identification Randy J. LaPolla 139-151
Participant roles, thematic roles and syntactic relations Christian Lehmann 153-174
Information focus in relational clause structure Elena S. Maslova 175-194
Voice without subjects, objects, or obliques: Manipulating argument structure in Agent/Patient systems (Mohawk) Marianne Mithun 195-216
Chukchi reciprocals (with an appendix on Koryak and Itelmen) Vladimir P. Nedjalkov 217-246
The regular and the extended comitative reciprocal construction, illustrated from German Frans Plank 247-270
Auxiliation of 'give' verbs in Russian: Discourse evidence for grammaticalization Vera I. Podlesskaya 271-298
Reflexive and middle constructions of Warrungu (Australia) Tasaku Tsunoda 299-333
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