Demoting the Agent

1. List of contributors; 2. Preface; 3. Perspectives on demotion: Introduction to the volume (by Solstad, Torgrim); 4. Semantic and syntactic patterns in Swedish passives (by Engdahl, Elisabet); 5. The Eastern Khanty locative-agent constructions: A functional discourse-pragmatic perspective (by Filtchenko, Andrey); 6. Agent back-grounding as a functional domain: Reflexivization and passivization in Czech and Russian (by Fried, Mirjam); 7. Invisible arguments: Effects of demotion in Estonian and Finnish (by Kaiser, Elsi); 8. Argument demotion as feature suppression (by Kallulli, Dalina); 9. A comparative view of the requirement for adverbial modification in middles (by Lekakou, Marika); 10. From passive to active: Syntactic change in progress in Icelandic (by Maling, Joan); 11. The relation between information structure, syntactic structure and passive (by Pitz, Anneliese); 12. Syntax and semantics of the deontic WANT-passive in Italo-Romance (by Remberger, Eva-Maria); 13. Agentivity and the virtual reflexive construction (by Stephens, Nola M.); 14. Arguments in middles (by Stroik, Thomas); 15. Language index; 16. Name index; 17. Subject index