a cross-linguistic perspective
Edición de la obra Impersonal constructions
| Autor | A. L. Malʹchukov |
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| Editorial | John Benjamins |
| Fecha de publicación | 2011 |
| Lugar | Amsterdam, Philadelphia |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 641 |
| ISBN-13 | 9789027205919, 9789027287168 |
| ISBN-10 | 9027205914, 9027287163 |
| OCLC | 695860317 |
| LCCN | 2011000415 |
| Serie | Studies in language companion series -- v. 124 · Studies in language companion series -- v. 124. |
| Número de Cutter | M262i |
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"This 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."--Publisher's website.