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Directory         1.     Paul Peranteau , Impersonal Constructions: Malchukov, Siewierska (Eds) Message 1: Impersonal Constructions: Malchukov, Siewierska (Eds) Date: 02-Aug-2011 From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com> Subject: Impersonal Constructions: Malchukov, Siewierska (Eds) E-mail this message to a friend Title: Impersonal Constructions Subtitle: A cross-linguistic perspective Series Title: Studies in Language Companion Series 124 Published: 2011 Publisher: John Benjamins                 http://www.benjamins.com/ Book URL: http://benjamins.com/catalog/slcs.124 Editor: Andrej Malchukov Editor: Anna Siewierska Electronic: ISBN: 9789027287168 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 105.00 Electronic: ISBN: 9789027287168 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 158.00 Hardback: ISBN: 9789027205919 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 105.00 Hardback: ISBN: 9789027205919 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 158.00 Hardback: ISBN: 9789027205919 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 111.30 Abstract: This volume offers a much needed typological perspective on impersonal constructions, which are here viewed broadly as constructions lacking a referential subject. The contributions to this volume deal with all types of impersonality, namely constructions featuring nonagentive subjects, including those with experiential predicates (A-impersonals), presentational constructions with a notional subject deficient in topicality (T-impersonals), and constructions with a notional subject lacking in referential properties (R- impersonals), i.e. both meteo-constructions and man-constructions. The typological discussion benefits from a good coverage of impersonality in European languages, but also includes considerations of several African, American, South-East Asian, Australian, and Oceanic languages. The variation in the cross-linguistic realization of impersonality and the diachronic pathways leading to and from impersonality documented in this volume point to a novel perspective on impersonals as transitional structures or an intermediate stage of a more basic diachronic change be it from transitive to intransitive, or from active to passive, or participant-to event-centered construction. 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