Date: 08-Nov-2007 From: Ulrich Lueders <lincom.europat-online.de> Subject: Studies in Voice and Transitivity (Estudios de voz y transitividad): Fernández, Wichmann, Chamoreau, González (Eds) E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Studies in Voice and Transitivity (Estudios de voz y transitividad)
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 39
Published: 2007
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
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Editor: Søren K. Wichmann
Editor: Claudine Chamoreau
Editor: Zarina Estrada Fernández
Editor: Albert Álvarez González
Hardback: ISBN: 9783895861000 Pages: 246 Price: Europe EURO 92.00
Abstract:
Studies in voice and transitivity (Estudios de voz y transitividad)
In this collection of papers the phenomenon of voice is addressed both synchronically and diachronically, and both typological (or areal) perspectives as well as studies of individual languages are represented. The majority of contributions in the latter category discuss Uto-Aztecan languages, but treatments of other languages, such as Purépecha and Mapuche, are also included.
Although all authors share an over-all functional perspective, different approaches nevertheless emerge. For instance, among the typological papers, one views the passive construction through a prototype approach (Comrie); another characterizes the passive as a family of constructions that have different diachronic origins, whose footprints are often still discernible but which are nevertheless united by common functional motivations (Givón); a third approach defines a canonical type of passive with the aim of explaining the consistent absence of this particular type in so-called 'active' languages (Wichmann). Some major themes in the individual language studies are patterns of grammaticalization and issues of iconicity. A conclusion that cross-cuts the entire volume is that insights into constructions involving valency change are best achieved through both detailed descriptive work spanning the lexical and syntactic domains as well as through a view to historical developments; in short, a panchronic approach is recommended.
Table of contents
Introduction
General
What is a Passive? Bernard Comrie
On the relational properties of passive clauses: A diachronic perspective T. Givón
Valency-reduction in event-oriented languages Søren Wichmann
Case studies in Uto-Aztecan and other languages
Participios estativos en yaqui y mecanismos de detransitivización Albert Álvarez González
Antipasivas en español. Forma y función Sergio Bogard
Derivación causativa en toba Marisa Censabella
Looking for a new participant. The Purepecha passive Claudine Chamoreau
Causatives and applicatives in Pima Bajo: The interplay of the causative and the applicative in sociative causation Zarina Estrada Fernández
The passive in the Taracahitic languages Yaqui, Warihio and Tarahumara Rolando Félix Armendáriz
La voz media en la lengua mapuche Ana Fernández Garay
Yaqui causation: its form-function interface Lilián Guerrero
Index of languages and language families Index of authors Index of subjects
Linguistic Field(s):
Linguistic Theories
Morphology
Syntax
Typology
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