How do middle voice markers and valency reducing constructions interact? Typological tendencies and diachronic considerations

Ditransitive constructions: a typological overview

University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics Parasitic Semantics (or Why Swedish Can't Lexicalize Middle Voice Constructions) Parasitic Semantics (or Why Swedish Can't Lexicalize Middle Voice Constructions) Parasitic Semantics (or Why Swedish Can't Lexicalize Middle Voice Constructions)

In this squib we explore a strictly derivational explanation for the differences in possible middle voice constructions in Norwegian and Swedish. Whereas Norwegian allows by its lexical s-passive construction as well as a complex adjectival construction to stand in for middle semantics, only the latter option is available in Swedish. We argue that this contrast lies in the lexicalization of for...

Antipassive and Middle Constructions

In addition to the transitive and intransitive, ergative languages of the Polynesian group commonly have another type of construction, which is called middle. The middle construction stands somewhere in between the transitive and the intransitive. It involves two arguments, but crucially is syntactically intransitive. The subject appears in ABS, not ERG. The logical object appears in some obliq...

How do marital status, work effort, and wage rates interact?

How marital status interacts with men's earnings is an important analytic and policy issue, especially in the context of debates in the United States over programs that encourage healthy marriage. This paper generates new findings about the earnings-marriage relationship by estimating the linkages among flows into and out of marriage, work effort, and wage rates. The estimates are based on Nati...

How do young and senior cytopathologists interact with digital cytology?

Today thanks to the technological advances in information technology the scenario of utilization of digital cytology has radically changed. New competitive systems, such as client-server architectures are now available in digital cytology. Their application in telemedicine should be investigated. A new interactive tool designed for the final destination user (the cytopathologist) has been propo...