Valency reduction in Estonian

Theories of voice based on a model of passivisation such as that exhibited by English tend to characterise valency modifications as primarily a syntactic phenomenon, involving the mapping of semantic roles to non-canonical syntactic argument positions. This dissertation finds such an approach insuff...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vihman, Virve-Anneli
Published: University of Edinburgh 2004
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.663277