Impersonal constructions: a cross-linguistic perspective
by Malchukov, Andrej L. Siewierska, Anna
Features the contributions that deal with various types of impersonality, namely constructions featuring nonagentive subjects, including those with experiential predicates, presentational constructions with a notional subject deficient in topicality, and constructions with a notional subject lacking in referential properties.
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- Full title :Impersonal constructions : a cross-linguistic perspective / edited by Andrej Malchukov, Anna Siewierska
Summary
Features the contributions that deal with various types of impersonality, namely constructions featuring nonagentive subjects, including those with experiential predicates, presentational constructions with a notional subject deficient in topicality, and constructions with a notional subject lacking in referential properties.
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- Publication Date:2011
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):John Benjamins
- Place of Publication:Amsterdam
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011
The Physical Object
- Description:ix, 641 s. : : illustrations ; : 25 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9789027205919, 9789027287168, 9027205914, 9027287163
- oclc:ocn769041278
- LC Classification:P293.5
- Dewey Decimal:415 .6
Table of Contents
List of contributors, pvii-x; Introduction (by Malchukov, Andrej), p1-16; Par I. Impersonal constructions: Typological and theoretical aspects; Towards a typology of impersonal constructions: A semantic map approach (by Malchukov, Andrej), p17-54; Overlap and complementarity in reference impersonals: Man-constructions vs. third person plural-impersonals in the languages of Europe (by Siewierska, Anna), p57-90; Verbs of motion: Impersonal passivizatio between unaccusativity and unergativity (by Abraham, Werner), p91-126; On the distribution of subject properties in formulaic presentationals of Germanic an Romance: A diachronic-typological approach (by Gast, Volker), p127-166; Part I Impersonal constructions: Diachronic studies; Impersonal constructions and accusative subjects in Late Latin (by Cennamo, Michela), p167-188; From passiv to impersonal: A case study from Italian and its implications (by Giacalone-Ramat, Anna), p189-228; Passive to anticausative through impersonalization: The case of Vedic and Indo-European (by Kulikov, Leonid), p229-254; Part III. Cross-linguistic variation in Impersonal constructions: Case studies; The Maa (Eastern Nilotic) Impersonal construction (by …
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