Table of Contents: Demoting the agent :

Other Authors:	Solstad, Torgrim., Lyngfelt, Benjamin.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J Benjamins, 2006.
Series:	Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today, v. 96
Subjects:	Grammar, Comparative and general > Voice. Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Grammar & Punctuation. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Syntax.

Table of Contents:

Demoting the Agent; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; List of contributors; Preface; Perspectives on demotion; Semantic and syntactic patterns in Swedish passives; The Eastern Khanty locative-agent constructions; Agent back-grounding as a functional domain; Invisible arguments; Argument demotion as feature suppression; A comparative view of the requirement for adverbial modification in middles; From passive to active; The relation between information structure, syntactic structure and passive; Syntax and semantics of the deontic WANT-passive in Italo-Romance.