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Book SynopsisThe volume Passives Cross-Linguistically provides analyses of passive constructions across different languages and populations from the interface perspectives between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. In addition to the theoretical contributions, some experimental works are presented, which explore passives from psycholinguistic perspectives.
Table of ContentsEditorial Foreword List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction Akemi Matsuya and Kleanthes K. Grohmann 1 Long-Distance Passives by Structure Removal Gereon Müller 2 On Passive and Perfect Participles Peter Hallman 3 On Deontic Passives Eva-Maria Remberger 4 Indirect Object Want-Passives in Southern Italy Adam Ledgeway 5 Unexpected Passive Structures from Prepositional Verbs in Catalan Isabel Crespí 6 Two Types of Passive? Voice Morphology and “Low Passives” in Vedic Sanskrit and Ancient Greek Laura Grestenberger 7 Non-active Voices in South Asian Languages Pritha Chandra, Gurmeet Kaur and Anindita Sahoo 8 A More Articulated Approach to Causativity Alternation Mohamed Naji 9 Semantic and Pragmatic Implications of Passives Akemi Matsuya 10 The Source of Passive Sentence Difficulty: Task Effects and Predicate Semantics, Not Argument Order Caterina L. Paolazzi, Nino Grillo and Andrea Santi 11 Synthetic Passives in Early and Impaired Grammar: The View from Greek Reflexive Verbs Arhonto Terzi 12 The Mirage of “Impaired Passives” and the Locus Preservation Hypothesis Kleanthes K. Grohmann, Maria Kambanaros and Evelina Leivada Index
