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Tue Feb 21 2006

Books: Syntax/Typology: Klaiman

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Message 1: Grammatical Voice: Klaiman
Date: 15-Dec-2005
From: Joyce Reid <jreidcup.org>
Subject: Grammatical Voice: Klaiman


Title: Grammatical Voice Series Title: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, 59 Published: 2005 Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Book URL: http://us.cambridge.org/titles/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521369046

Author: M. H. Klaiman Paperback: ISBN: 0521369045 Pages: 343 Price: U.K. £ 27.00
Paperback: ISBN: 0521369045 Pages: 343 Price: U.S. $ 48.00
Abstract:

Categories of the verb in natural languages include tense, aspect, modality(mood) and voice. Among these, voice, in its rich and diversemanifestations, is perhaps the most complex. But most prior researchconcentrates on only certain types, predominantly passives. Voice expressesrelations between a predicate and a set of nominal positions - or theirreferents - in a clause or other structure. Grammatical Voice is the firsttypological study of voice systems based on a multi-language survey. Itintroduces a threefold classification of voice types, in the first placedistinguishing passivization phenomena (derived voice) from active-middlesystems (basic voice); and further, distinguishing each of these frompragmatically grounded voice behaviours, such as focus and inverse systems.As the first comprehensive study of voice systems and voice typology, thisbook makes a significant contribution to current research in linguisticsand grammatical theory.

1. The study of voice2. Middle voice and basic voice systems3. Control and voice4. Inverse voice systems5. Information-salience voice systems6. Toward a theory of voiceAppendix: Approaches to voice analysis


Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories                             Morphology                             Syntax                             Typology
Written In: English (eng )

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