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This book is an exploration of the syntax of external arguments in transitivity alternations from a cross-linguistic perspective. The empirical focus is the causative/anticausative alternation and the formation of (adjectival) Passives. The bulk of the discussion, couched within Distributed Morphology, is devoted to the properties of the (anti-)causative alternation, which the text takes to be a Voice alternation. It offers a detailed discussion of the morphological realization of anticausatives across languages, and argues that marked anticausatives involve expletive Voice and are not reflexive predicates. In the discussion of Passives, the book argues that the fact that Passives in German and English—unlike their counterparts in Greek, where Passives are syncretic with anticausatives—are morphologically unique reflects the fact that they are also structurally unique. Passives in English and German involve Passive Voice, while they involve Middle Voice in Greek. The text furthermore shows that the distinction between target and resultant state participles is an important one in order to understand the contribution of Voice in adjectival Passives. Importantly, the study provided tools to probe into the morpho-syntactic structure of verbs and participles, and to identify the properties of verbal alternations across languages.

Comparative linguistics --- Grammar --- Syntaxe --- Morphologie (linguistique) --- Transitivité (linguistique) --- Verbes --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Transitivity. --- Syntaxe. --- Verbes.

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Grammar, Comparative and general --- Grammaire comparée. --- Transitivité (linguistique) --- Verbes. --- Transitivity. --- Verb.

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Grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Transitivité (Linguistique) --- Transitivity --- Congresses --- Congrès --- -Comparative grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Language and languages --- Philosophical grammar --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative --- -Transitivity --- Transitivité (Linguistique) --- Congrès --- Cognition --- Comparative grammar

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This collection of papers is the first book ever published in English that presents detailed analyses of valency and transitivity alternations in Japanese from multifaceted standpoints: morphology, semantics, syntax, dialects, history, acquisition, and language typology.

Japanese language. --- Koguryo language --- Japanese language --- Japonais (Langue) --- Verb --- Congresses --- Transitivity --- Dependency grammar --- Verbe --- Congrès --- Transitivité --- Grammaire de dépendance --- Verb. --- Congresses. --- Japanese. --- Language Typology. --- Valency.

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This systematic introduction to the concept of point of view in language explores the ways in which point of view intersects with and is shaped by ideology. It specifically focuses on the way in which speakers and writers linguistically encode their beliefs, interests and biases in a wide range of media. The book draws on an extensive array of linguistic theories and frameworks and each chapter includes a self-contained introduction to a particular topic in linguistics, allowing easy reference. The author uses examples from a variety of literary and non-literary text types such as, narrative fiction, advertisements and newspaper reports. This book offers an integrated programme of language-study and textual analysis that will be of interest to students of linguistics, stylistics, English Language, English as a foreign language, literature, and communication studies.

Language and languages --- Point of view (Literature) --- Ideology. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Pragmatics. --- Sexism in language. --- Style. --- Transitivity. --- Sexism in language --- Transitivité (Linguistique) --- Point de vue (Littérature) --- Sexisme dans le langage --- Point de vue (Littérature) --- Ideology --- Pragmatics --- 801.56 --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Sexist language --- Language and sex --- Nonsexist language --- Fiction --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Persona (Literature) --- Linguostylistics --- Stylistics --- Literary style --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Philosophy --- Political science --- Psychology --- Thought and thinking --- Transitivity (Grammar) --- Pragmalinguistics --- General semantics --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Transitivity --- Style --- Sex differences --- Technique --- Verb --- Verb phrase --- Drama --- Stilistics --- Sociolinguistics --- Point of view (Literature). --- Transitivité (Linguistique) --- Idéologie --- Stylistique --- Pragmatique --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Language and languages - Style. --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Transitivity. --- Transitivité (linguistique) --- Pragmatisme --- Langage et langues --- Grammaire comparée et générale --- Point de vue (littérature) --- Transitivité --- Langues