Grammatical Voice

The first ever textbook devoted to the cross-linguistic study of voice, covering various topics and discussing data from numerous languages.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Changing semantic valency: causatives, applicatives, and related constructions; 3. Changing syntactic valency: passives, antipassives, and related constructions; 4. In search of balance: agent and patient voices; 5. The affected subject: reflexives, reciprocals, and middles; 6. Covert diatheses: uncoded alternations; 7. The fringes of voice; 8. Diachronic aspects of voice; 9. Revisiting voice theory.

About the author

Fernando Zúñiga is Professor of Linguistics at the Universität Bern, Switzerland. His research focusses on the qualitative typology of voice and alignment, as well as on benefaction and wordhood issues. He has co-edited numerous books including Typological Hierarchies in Synchrony and Diachrony (2018) with Sonia Cristofaro.Seppo Kittilä works as a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Helsinki. He has published extensively on transitivity and argument marking, and also causatives. He has (co-)edited numerous books on these topics including Benefactives and Malefactives (2010) with Fernando Zúñiga.

Summary

Aimed at students of linguistics and researchers in morphology, syntax, and semantics, this textbook introduces a wide variety of topics related to passives, causatives, and other voices, and systematizes how they are similar and how they differ.

Product details

• Authors: Seppo Kittila, Seppo (University of Helsinki) Kittila, Seppo Kittilä, Fernando Zuniga, Fernando (Universitat Bern Zuniga, Fernando (Universitat Bern Switzerland) Zuniga, Fernando (Universitat Bern Switzerland) Ki Zuniga, Fernando Zúñiga
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9781316612125
• ISBN: 978-1-316-61212-5
• No. of pages: 310
• Series: Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics; Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, Sociolinguistics, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc