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Transcultural Localisms: Responding to Ethnicity in a Globalized World

2. Prolegomena to a study of Modern Greek middle voice

6. Reflexive structures

5. Spontaneous change of state, stative, and passive structures

The Reflexive Archetype and its Various Realizations in Modern Greek

Studies in Language, 1998

En s'appuyant sur les resultats de la recherche fonctionnelle cognitive, l'A. examine les... more En s'appuyant sur les resultats de la recherche fonctionnelle cognitive, l'A. examine les constructions morphosyntaxiques qui encodent les relations reflechies en grec moderne. Il tente plus particulierement de caracteriser les notions scalaires de proeminence de soi et de separation des aspects actifs et passifs d'un individu unique qui sont des composantes du principe pragmatique discursif de topicalite, et indique la maniere dont ces concepts sont utilises pour differencier 4 types de constructions reflechies

1. Defining the problem

3. Experiencer subject structures

4. Agent subject structures

Mental Experience Verbs in Modern Greek: A Cognitive Explanation for Active versus Middle Voice

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Jan 11, 2012

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Middle Voice in Modern Greek

Studies in Language Companion Series, 2000

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Suzanne Kemmer. The Middle Voice

Functions of Language, 1995

Pragmatic Motivation for Inflectional Middle Voice in Modern Greek

Functions of Language, 1995

The occurrence of inflectional middle voice in Modern Greek texts is motivated by diverse pragmat... more The occurrence of inflectional middle voice in Modern Greek texts is motivated by diverse pragmatic pressures which are related to particular components of its semantic structure. The prototypical value of the semantic category instantiated by middle inflection comprises various internally complex components such as HIGH AFFECT and LOW VOLITION of a nonagentive subject, and LOW INDIVIDUATION of an agent-like source. The semantic component of HIGH AFFECT is shown to be analogous to the expressive function of Subject Enhancement, whereas the components of LOW VOLITION and LOW INDIVIDUATION are related to the textual strategy of Agent Defocusing. Both the semantic components and the pragmatic functions of middle voice are encompassed by more general speaker based strategies of foregrounding and/or backgrounding some element of a conceived situation; these strategies are shaped by subsystems of encyclopedic knowledge that are utilized in particular communicative contexts.

Andersen, Paul. Empirical studies in diathesis

Studies in Language, 1997

States, results, and the active/passive/middle continuum in Modern Greek

Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 2010

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