Encyclopaedia of German Diatheses
Diathesis ('valency alternation') is a sentence structure that reshapes the roles of a verb. The prototypical example of such a diathesis is the well-known passive. However, there are very many other such role-remappings, like antipassives, applicatives, causatives, etc. This book presents an encycl...
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Language Science Press
2023
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