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<p>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 &#8220;middle Voice&#8221; Has Had A Wide Range Of Applications In The Linguistic Literature Of This Century. <br>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 &#8220;relative Elaboration Of Events&#8221;, 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. <br>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 Obse

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Author

Suzanne Kemmer

Publisher

John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9789027229076

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Linguistics, Language Learning, Literary Fiction