Middle Voice

Name: Middle Voice
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ISBN: 9781556194115

ISBN-10: 1556194110

ISBN-13: 9781556194115

Edition: 1993

Authors: Suzanne Kemmer

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This book approaches the middle voice from the perspective of typology and language universals research. The principal aim is to provide a typologically valid characterization of the category of middle voice in terms of which it can be incorporated in a cognitively-based theory of human language. The term "middle voice" has had a wide range of applications in the linguistic literature of this century. The main thesis in this volume is that there is a coherent, though complex, semantic category of middle voice in human language, which receives grammatical instantiation in many languages. The author claims there is a semantic property crucial to the nature of the middle, which she terms…

Book details

List price: $68.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Publication date: 10/5/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 311
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.45" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Preface



Introduction



Middle Voice Systems



Reflexive and Associated Middle Situation Types



Related Semantic Domains



Diachronic Developments



Hypotheses and Predictions


Notes


Appendix A A Checklist for Middle Semantics


Appendix B Data Sources


Bibliography


Index of Subjects


Index of Names


Index of Languages