Studies in voice and transitivity

Abstract

This volume is dedicated to new theoretical and empirical insights into the behavior of valency-affecting mechanisms such as passives, causatives, antipassives, resultative and middles. All contributions are functionally oriented, seeking explanations for the phenomena studied in the interaction between form and function. The complex crosslinguistic relations of the mechanisms in the domain of transitivity and voice still require more studies on distinct languages as well as new theoretical reflexions looking forward new explanations. The three first papers in the volume all address general issues involving passives, and the remainder describes mechanisms of voice and transitivity in particular languages or groups of related languages, several of them belonging to the Uto-Aztecan family: Pima Bajo, Tarahumara, Yaqui, Warihio, one of an isolated language Purepecha, two deal with languages from Argentina, Toba and Mapudungun or Mapuche; antipassives in Spanish are also considered. In the following we provide brief summaries of the individual contributions.

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