Passives cross-linguistically : : theoretical and experimental approaches / / edited by Kleanthes K. Grohmann, Akemi Matsuya, Eva-Maria Remberger.

• Superior document: Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory ; Volume 17
• TeilnehmendeR: Grohmann, Kleanthes K.,; Matsuya, Akemi,; Remberger, Eva-Maria,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Empirical approaches to linguistic theory ; Volume 17.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

The chapters collected in the volume Passives Cross-Linguistically provide analyses of passive constructions across different languages and populations from the interface perspectives between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. The contributions are, in principle, all based on the background of generative grammatical theory. In addition to the theoretical contributions of the first part of this volume, all solidly built on rich empirical bases, some experimental works are presented, which explore passives from a psycholinguistic perspective based on theoretical insights. The languages/language families covered in the contributions include South Asian languages (Odia/Indo-Aryan and Telugu/Dravidian, but also Kharia/Austro-Asiatic), Japanese, Arabic, English, German, Modern Greek, and several modern Romance varieties (Catalan, Romanian, and especially southern Italian dialects) as well as Vedic Sanskrit and Ancient Greek.

Table of Contents

Editorial 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.