The Passive Aspect in English, German, and Russian
Title | The Passive Aspect in English, German, and Russian PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Beedham |
Publisher | |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Grammar, Comparative and general |
ISBN |
Passivization and Typology
Title | Passivization and Typology PDF eBook |
Author | Werner Abraham |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 568 |
Release | 2006-09-20 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027293252 |
Is the passive a unified universal phenomenon? The claim derived from this volume is that the passive, if not universal, has become unified according to function. Language as a means of communication needs the passive, or passive-like constructions, and sooner or later develops them based on other voices (impersonal active, middle, reflexive), specific semantic meanings such as adversativity, or tense-aspect categories (stative,perfect, preterit). Certain contributors review the passives in various languages and language groups, including languages rarely discussed. Another group of contributors takes a novel theoretical approach toward passivization within a broad typological perspective. Among the languages discussed are Vedic, Irish, Mandarin Chinese, Thai, Lithuanian, Mordvin, and Nganasan, next to almost all European languages. Various theoretical frameworks such as Optimality Theory, Modern Structuralist Approaches, Role and Reference Grammar, Cognitive Semantics, Distributed Morphology, and Case Grammar have been applied by the different authors.
A Semantic and Pragmatic Model of Lexical and Grammatical Aspect
Title | A Semantic and Pragmatic Model of Lexical and Grammatical Aspect PDF eBook |
Author | Mari Broman Olsen |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Grammar, Comparative and general |
ISBN | 9780815328490 |
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Aspect and Reference Time
Title | Aspect and Reference Time PDF eBook |
Author | Olga Borik |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 239 |
Release | 2006-08-31 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 0199291284 |
Introduction -- Main theories of aspect (1) : the telicity approach -- Perfectivity in Russian in terms of telicity : testing the hypothesis -- Main theories of aspect (2) : the point of view approach -- Reference time -- Russian aspect in terms of reference time.
A Grammar of Aspect
Title | A Grammar of Aspect PDF eBook |
Author | J. Forsyth |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 406 |
Release | 1970-07 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0521075149 |
This book examines the aspect - the relationship between imperfective and perfective verbs - found in the Russian language.
Diachronic Change in the English Passive
Title | Diachronic Change in the English Passive PDF eBook |
Author | J. Toyota |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2008-11-05 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0230594654 |
In this coherent historical development of the passive voice in English, the main argument deals not only with the passive per se, but also with its related constructions, which can play vital parts in identifying both functional and structural motivations for creating the passive.
Language and Meaning
Title | Language and Meaning PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Beedham |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2005-01-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9789027215642 |
Lcc number: 2005048394