Agentivity in Human Impersonal Constructions in Polish and Russian
- Paperback
498 pages
- Release Date
14 February 2023
Summary
Unmasking the Impersonal: Agentivity in Polish and Russian Constructions
This book offers a synchronic exploration of passive and impersonal constructions in Polish (-no/-to, reflexive, and 3pl) and Russian (3pl construction), contrasting them with standard active constructions. It reveals how the applicability of these constructions varies across verbs, irrespective of the animacy of the subject being demoted.
The core argument posits that the grammaticality of these constr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9783631892602 |
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| ISBN-10: | 3631892608 |
| Series: | Specimina philologiae Slavicae |
| Author: | Maria Katarzyna Prenner, Franz Schindler, Peter Kosta, Beatrix Kreß, Holger Kuße, Barbara Sonnenhauser, Nadine Thielemann |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang AG |
| Imprint: | Peter Lang AG |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 498 |
| Release Date: | 14 February 2023 |
| Weight: | 639g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 148mm |
About The Author
Maria Katarzyna Prenner
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.
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