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Wir sind gerne für Sie daThis volume offers a much needed typological perspective on impersonal constructions, which are here viewed broadly as constructions lacking a referential subject. The contributions to this volume deal with all types of impersonality, namely constructions featuring nonagentive subjects, including those with experiential predicates (A-impersonals), presentational constructions with a notional subject deficient in topicality (T-impersonals), and constructions with a notional subject lacking in referential properties (R-impersonals), i.e. both meteo-constructions and man-constructions. The typological discussion benefits from a good coverage of impersonality in European languages, but also includes considerations of several African, American, South-East Asian, Australian, and Oceanic languages. The variation in the cross-linguistic realization of impersonality and the diachronic pathways leading to and from impersonality documented in this volume point to a novel perspective on impersonals as transitional structures or an intermediate stage of a more basic diachronic change be it from transitive to intransitive, or from active to passive, or participant-to event-centered construction.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9789027205919
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-90-272-0591-9
- Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Erscheinungstermin: 20.07.2011
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2011
- Serie: Studies in Language Companion Series
- Produktform: Gebunden
- Gewicht: 1320 g
- Seiten: 641
- Format (B x H): 164 x 245 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt