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Author : Joseph B. Stulberg
Release : 2019
Genre : Conflict management
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 331/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Middle Voice by : Joseph B. Stulberg
Download or read book The Middle Voice written by Joseph B. Stulberg. This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated and expanded version of the author's Taking charge/managing conflict, c1987.
Author : Suzanne Kemmer
Release : 1993-01-01
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 074/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Middle Voice by : Suzanne Kemmer
Download or read book The Middle Voice written by Suzanne Kemmer. This book was released on 1993-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 relative elaboration of events, that serves as a parameter along which the reflexive and the middle can be situated as semantic categories intermediate in transitivity between one-participant and two-participant events, and which differentiates reflexive and middle from one another. In this area, most analyses deal with one language and/or are limited to Indo-European languages. This work deals with a subset of middle-marking languages that was chosen so as to observe the highest possible number of different middle systems showing significant independent diachronic development.
Author : Rutger Allan
Release : 2019-09-16
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 068/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Middle Voice in Ancient Greek by : Rutger Allan
Download or read book The Middle Voice in Ancient Greek written by Rutger Allan. This book was released on 2019-09-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allan, Rutger The Middle Voice in Ancient Greek. A Study of Polysemy. 2003 The great variety of usage types of the middle voice in Ancient Greek has excited the interest of generations of classical scholars. A number of intriguing questions, however, still have been left unanswered. What is the exact relation between the various middle usage types? How can the semantic element common to all usage types be defined? What is the relation between the middle voice and the passive voice in the aorist and future stems? To provide an answer to these questions, this study takes a novel approach. Following recent developments in Cognitive Linguistics, the middle voice in Ancient Greek is analysed as a polysemous network category. This approach results in a unified description of the semantics of the middle voice which also accounts for diachronical developments. ASCP 11 (2003), 286 p. Cloth - 79.00 EURO, ISBN: 9050633684
Author : Axel Holvoet
Release : 2020-05-15
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 083/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Middle Voice in Baltic by : Axel Holvoet
Download or read book The Middle Voice in Baltic written by Axel Holvoet. This book was released on 2020-05-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth volume in the VARGReB series is a monograph presenting a collection of studies on middle-voice grams in Baltic, that is, on a widely ramified family of constructions with different syntactic and semantic properties but sharing a morphological marker of reflexive origin. Though the emphasis is on Baltic, ample attention is given to other languages as well, especially to Slavonic. The book offers many new insights into questions of syntactic and semantic interpretation, correct demarcation and diachronic explanation of middle-voice grams. The relationship between reflexive and middle, the workings of metonymy, changes in syntactic structure and lexical input as factors determining diachronic shifts within the middle-voice domain and transitions from one middle-voice gram to another – these are among the topics discussed in the book, which, beyond its relevance to Baltic and Slavonic scholarship, is also a contribution to the typology of the middle voice.
Author : Linda Joyce Manney
Release : 2000
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 515/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Middle Voice in Modern Greek by : Linda Joyce Manney
Download or read book Middle Voice in Modern Greek written by Linda Joyce Manney. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an in-depth analysis of the inflectional middle category in Modern Greek. Against the theoretical backdrop of cognitive linguistics, it is argued that a wide range of seemingly disparate middle structures in Modern Greek comprise a complex semantic network, and that this network is organized around two prototypical middle event types, which are noninitiative emotional response and spontaneous change of state. In those cases where middle structures have active counterparts, middle and active variants of the same verb stem are compared in order to demonstrate more clearly the semantic distinctions and pragmatic functions encoded by inflectional middle voice in Modern Greek. Major semantic groupings of middle structures treated include emotional response in particular and psycho-emotive experience in general, spontaneous change of state and/or the resulting state, agent-induced events in which an agent subject is (emotionally) involved with or affected by some aspect of the designated situation, passive-like events in which a patient subject is affected by a nonfocal agent, implicit or specified, and reflexive-like events in which a patient subject and an unspecified agent may overlap to varying degrees.
