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 ForewordList of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroductionAkemi Matsuya and Kleanthes K. Grohmann1 Long-Distance Passives by Structure RemovalGereon Müller2 On Passive and Perfect ParticiplesPeter Hallman3 On Deontic PassivesEva-Maria Remberger4 Indirect Object Want-Passives in Southern ItalyAdam Ledgeway5 Unexpected Passive Structures from Prepositional Verbs in CatalanIsabel Crespí6 Two Types of Passive? Voice Morphology and “Low Passives” in Vedic Sanskrit and Ancient GreekLaura Grestenberger7 Non-active Voices in South Asian LanguagesPritha Chandra, Gurmeet Kaur and Anindita Sahoo8 A More Articulated Approach to Causativity AlternationMohamed Naji9 Semantic and Pragmatic Implications of PassivesAkemi Matsuya10 The Source of Passive Sentence Difficulty: Task Effects and Predicate Semantics, Not Argument OrderCaterina L. Paolazzi, Nino Grillo and Andrea Santi11 Synthetic Passives in Early and Impaired Grammar: The View from Greek Reflexive VerbsArhonto Terzi12 The Mirage of “Impaired Passives” and the Locus Preservation HypothesisKleanthes K. Grohmann, Maria Kambanaros and Evelina LeivadaIndex