The Middle Voice
The Middle Voice
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中间的声音
DOI：
10.1075/tsl.23
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发表时间：
1993
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S. Kemmer
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作者：
S. Kemmer
本书从类型学和语言共性研究的角度探讨了中间语态。其主要目的是提供一个有效的类型学特征的类别中的声音，它可以被纳入人类语言的认知为基础的理论。“中间语态”一词在本世纪的语言学文献中有着广泛的应用。
本书的主要论点是，在人类语言中有一个连贯但复杂的中间语态语义范畴，它在许多语言中接受语法实例。作者认为，有一个语义属性至关重要的性质的中间，她称之为“相对阐述的事件”，作为一个参数，沿着，反身和中间可以定位为中间的语义范畴之间的一个参与者和两个参与者的事件，并区分反身和中间从另一个。
在这方面，大多数分析涉及一种语言和/或仅限于印欧语言。这项工作涉及一个子集的中间标记语言，选择，以观察尽可能多的不同中间系统显示显着的独立的历时发展。
This book approaches the middle voice from the perspective of typology and language universals research. The principal aim is to provide a typologically valid characterization of the category of middle voice in terms of which it can be incorporated in a cognitively-based theory of human language. The term “middle voice” has had a wide range of applications in the linguistic literature of this century.
The main thesis in this volume is that there is a coherent, though complex, semantic category of middle voice in human language, which receives grammatical instantiation in many languages. The author claims there is a semantic property crucial to the nature of the middle, which she terms “relative elaboration of events”, that serves as a parameter along which the reflexive and the middle can be situated as semantic categories intermediate in transitivity between one-participant and two-participant events, and which differentiates reflexive and middle from one another.
In this area, most analyses deal with one language and/or are limited to Indo-European languages. This work deals with a subset of middle-marking languages that was chosen so as to observe the highest possible number of different middle systems showing significant independent diachronic development.