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Polish language --- Case. --- Clauses. --- Transitivity. --- Grammar

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This paper is a first report on an ongoing project aiming at building up a database of non-canonical argument marking in Lithuanian in contrast to other languages with relatively rich systems of morphological cases. The language with which we begin the comparison is Icelandic. The overarching aim consists not only in a unified inventorisation of relevant units, but in disclosing (i) regularities in the alternation of coding patterns and (ii) the factors underlying such variation. We will concentrate on case marking; this however implies agreement patterns as well, insofar as in these two langu

Baltic languages --- Balto-Slavic languages --- Indo-European languages --- Grammaticalization. --- Grammar. --- Case. --- Grammar

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The present article discusses the nature of the Latvian passive and, more specifically, the impersonal passive. It is argued that Latvian has indeed an impersonal passive that shows no signs of turning into an active impersonal, a development that has occurred in the history of Polish and could be an ongoing process in contemporary Lithuanian. Several lexical restrictions on the derivation of the Latvian constructions under discussion shows that they are indeed impersonal passives rather than active impersonals. Conspicuously absent, however, is a ban on the passivization of unaccusatives, as

Baltic languages --- Balto-Slavic languages --- Indo-European languages --- Voice. --- Syntax. --- Verb phrase. --- Grammaticalization.

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