Passives Cross-Linguistically

Kleanthes K. Grohmann, Ph.D. (2000), University of Maryland at College Park, is Professor of Biolinguistics at the University of Cyprus and the Director of the CAT Lab. He has published widely and is founding editor of the open-access journal Biolinguistics. Akemi Matsuya, Ph.D. (2000), University of Maryland at College Park, is Professor of Linguistics at Takachiho University. She has publications in formal and applied linguistics and is one of the editors of Linguistic Journal. Eva-Maria Remberger, Ph.D. (2003), Free University Berlin, is Professor of Romance Linguistics at the University of Vienna in Austria. Her research and publications concern grammar theoretical questions as they arise from Romance data in a comparative synchronic and diachronic view.

Editorial Foreword

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors



Introduction

 Akemi Matsuya and Kleanthes K. Grohmann



1 Long-Distance Passives by Structure Removal

 Gereon Müller



2 On Passive and Perfect Participles

 Peter Hallman



3 On Deontic Passives

 Eva-Maria Remberger



4 Indirect Object Want-Passives in Southern Italy

 Adam Ledgeway



5 Unexpected Passive Structures from Prepositional Verbs in Catalan

 Isabel Crespí



6 Two Types of Passive? Voice Morphology and “Low Passives” in Vedic Sanskrit and Ancient Greek

 Laura Grestenberger



7 Non-active Voices in South Asian Languages

 Pritha Chandra, Gurmeet Kaur and Anindita Sahoo



8 A More Articulated Approach to Causativity Alternation

 Mohamed Naji



9 Semantic and Pragmatic Implications of Passives

 Akemi Matsuya



10 The Source of Passive Sentence Difficulty: Task Effects and Predicate Semantics, Not Argument Order

 Caterina L. Paolazzi, Nino Grillo and Andrea Santi



11 Synthetic Passives in Early and Impaired Grammar: The View from Greek Reflexive Verbs

 Arhonto Terzi



12 The Mirage of “Impaired Passives” and the Locus Preservation Hypothesis

 Kleanthes K. Grohmann, Maria Kambanaros and Evelina Leivada



Index