Passivization and Typology

1. Contributor's addresses; 2. Abbreviations; 3. Introduction: Passivization and typology: Form vs. function - a confined survey into the research status quo (by Abraham, Werner); 4. Active-passive and reflexives; 5. Passives in Lithuanian (in comparison with Russian) (by Geniusiene, Emma S.); 6. Passive and middle in Indo-European: Reconstructing the early Vedic passive paradigm (by Kulikov, Leonid); 7. Triggers - aspectual, semantic, and discourse-pragmatic: case studies; 8. Pragmatic nature of Mandarin passive-like constructions (by Peltomaa, Marja); 9. Development of thuuk passive marker in Thai (by Prasithrathsint, Amara); 10. The passives of Modern Irish (by Nolan, Brian); 11. The passive in Erzya-Mordvin folklore (by Salo, Merja); 12. Grammatical voice and tense-aspect in Slavic (by Toyota, Jun-ichi); 13. Passive in Nganasan (by Leisio, Larisa); 14. Actor demotion; 15. 'Agent defocusing' revisited: Passive and impersonal constructions in some European languages (by Sanso, Andrea); 16. Relations between Actor-demoting devices in Lithuanian: Dedicated to Emma Geniusiene (by Wiemer, Bjorn); 17. Grammaticalization in long-term diachrony; 18. The rise and grammaticalization paths of Latin fieri and facere as passive auxiliaries (by Cennamo, Michela); 19. Grammatical relations in passive clauses: A diachronic perspective (by Givon, T.); 20. Argument structure and case; 21. Two types of detransitive constructions in the dialects of Japanese (by Sasaki, Kan); 22. Passive and argument structure (by Afarli, Tor A.); 23. Case-driven agree, EPP, and passive in Turkish (by Ozturk, Balkiz); 24. A unique feature of the direct passive in Japanese (by Ariji, Kenichi); 25. Actor demotion; 26. Passive as a feature-suppression operation (by Kallulli, Dalina); 27. Event semantics - Aspectual and semantic triggers; 28. The compositional nature of the passive: Syntactic vs. event semantic triggers. "Argument Hypothesis" vs. "Aspect Hypothesis" (by Abraham, Werner); 29. The impersonal passive: voice suspended under aspectual conditions (by Abraham, Werner); 30. Simple preterit and composite perfect tense: The role of the adjectival passive (by Rathert, Monika); 31. Author index; 32. Subject index