Agentivity in Human Impersonal Constructions in Polish and Russian

ISBN-13: 9783631892602 / Angielski

Franz Schindler; Peter Kosta; Beatrix Kreß

Opis

The six studies studies have shown that the constructions are differently sensitive to agent prominence. While the passive voice and the -no/-to construction in Polish show similar effects in showing more pronounced effects with respect to agent prominence, the reflexive and the active are not. The same applies to the 3pl impersonal in Russian.

Spis treści

Impersonal Constructions in Polish and Russian (and other Slavic and Non-Slavic Languages) - Thematic roles and thematic role approaches - Manual for the diagnosis of agentivity features - Corpus study of the -no/-to and the reflexive arb of Polish intransitive and transitive verbs - Exploration and decomposition of the feature [sentience] Exploration of the feature [movement]

O autorze

Maria Katarzyna Prenner studied Slavic Phililogy at the University of Cologne (Germany) and the University of Vienna (Austria). Currently she works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Justus-Liebig-University in Gießen (Germany). Her research interests include morphosyntactic variation in Slavic languages, corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics and biscriptality in the Slavia.