Middle Voice: A comparative study in the syntax-semantics interface of GermanJohn Benjamins Publishing, 27. juni 2002 - 340 sider This book offers a completely new analysis of the syntax and semantics of transitive reflexive sentences in German, which is embedded in the major phenomenon of the middle voice in Indo-European languages. It integrates the interpretation of non-argument reflexives into a modified version of recent theories of binding. The ambiguity of the reflexive pronoun is derived at the interface between syntax and semantics and does not rely on additional lexical or syntactic rules of argument suppression and argument promotion. This shift towards the semantic interpretation of syntactic arguments enables the author to offer a unified analysis of the middle, the anticausative and the reflexive interpretations. Furthermore, the crucial distinction between structural and oblique case forms is discussed and it is illustrated how specific properties of middle constructions such as adverbial modification or subject responsibility can be related to the generic interpretation of middle constructions. |
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Lexical and syntactic approaches to middle formation | 73 |
The syntax of transitive reflexive sentences | 129 |
The interpretation of reflexive pronouns in German | 177 |
Suppressed arguments and dative objects | 229 |
Middle constructions revisited | 267 |
Conclusion | 299 |
References | 309 |
Subject index | 327 |
Linguistik AktuellLinguistics Today | 338 |
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accusative object accusative reflexive pronoun adjunct middle adverbial modification ambiguity analysis anaphor anticausative verb argue argument reflexive argument variable assigned binding theory bound Buch Chapter clause clitic coindexed constructions in German corresponding dative objects dative reflexive pronouns defined definition derived discussion door opens Dutch English example external argument Fagan first argument first semantic argument focus particle free morpheme grammatical Hence illustrated impersonal middle constructions impersonal subject implicit argument Indo-European languages leicht linked logophoric Maria Middle High German middle interpretation middle marker middle verbs middle voice morphological morphosyntactic nominative non—argument reflexives offnet one—place passive personal pronouns Peter pronominal pronoun in object properties quantification reflexive interpretation RP—ACC second argument Section specified Steinbach strong reflexive pronouns structural and oblique syntactic arguments syntactic subject syntax thematic roles theta-role tion transitive reflexive sentences two-place unaccusative unaccusative verbs unergative ungrammatical unmarked valency reduction verkauft washes weak reflexive pronoun word order