none 10.1075/vargreb.2.03hol John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 76805120 1954477 1516631 202507031752000044 10.1075 2025-07-03T11:52:00Z 2015-07-27T12:22:06Z 5 2352-0159 10.1075/vargreb https://benjamins.com/ catalog/vargreb Axel Holvoet University of Warsaw & Vilnius University https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1744-5893 Nicole Nau Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan & Vilnius University https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5527-535X The second volume in the VARGReB series deals with voice in the wider sense, encompassing both alternations that preserve semantic valency, with passives as the most typical instance, and valency-changing devices such as the causative. Regarding the former, special attention is given to event-structural conditions on passivization, non-canonical passives, and the relation between passives and (active) impersonals. Papers dealing with causatives focus on valency patterns and argument marking in canonical as well as extended uses of causative morphology. Other articles consider converse constructions and the argument structure of middles, which seem to hold a position between voice in the narrow sense and valency-changing operations. An introductory article provides background information on the repertoire of voice alternations in Baltic from a cross-linguistic perspective. Representing different approaches and methods, the contributions to this volume offer fine-grained analyses of data from contemporary Latvian and Lithuanian. 2 8 5 2015 7 27 2015 9789027259103 9789027267955 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/vargreb.2 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027267955 https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/vargreb.2/html https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027267955.pdf Axel Holvoet https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1744-5893 The literature on morphological causatives has tended to concentrate on prototypical causativity, that is, on situations where the argument structure of a predicate is expanded by the addition of a causer. Extended uses of causative morphology, affecting argument structure in various non-prototypical ways or showing different types of metaphorical extension of the causative relationship, have been mentioned in the literature but hardly any detailed studies are available. The present article focuses on non-prototypical causatives in Latvian. Three factors leading to extended use of causative morphology are discussed: metaphorical extension, different types of argument-backgrounding, and the use of frame elements in addition to arguments of the base verb in order to satisfy the valency requirements of the causative construction. 8 5 2015 7 27 2015 147 178 10.1075/vargreb.2.03hol https://benjamins.com/catalog/vargreb.2.03hol https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/vargreb.2.03hol/html 10.1163/ej.9789004206076.i-606.22 Lithuanian Grammar Ambrazas 1997 Baltic Linguistics Anderson 2 9 2011 10.32798/bl.425 Case theory and case alternations: Evidence from Lithuanian Mūsdienu latviešu literārās valodas gramatika. I. Fonētika un morfoloģija Bergmane 1959 Handbuch der lettischen Sprache I. Grammatik Bielenstein 1863 Die lettische Sprache nach ihren Lauten und Formen vergleichend und erklärend dargestellt Bielenstein 1863/1864 10.1017/CBO9780511627750.003 Lettische Grammatik Endzelin 1923 Syntax and Semantics 6. The Grammar of Causative Constructions Hetzron 371 1976 10.1163/9789004368842_015 On the Hungarian causative and its syntax 10.1353/lan.1980.0017 Subject and Topic Keenan 303 1976 Towards a universal definition of ‘subject’ 10.1515/cogl.1994.5.2.115 10.1515/FLIN.2009.002 10.1075/slcs.50.06kul Language Typology and Language Universals. An International Handbook Kulikov 886 2001 Causatives L’apophonie en indo-européen Kuryłowicz 1956 Semitic Languages. Outline of a Comparative Grammar Lipiński 1997 Latviešu literārās valodas vārdnīca Lettisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, ergänzt und fortgesetzt von Janis Endzelin Mühlenbach i Tipologija kauzativnyx konstrukcij. Morfologičeskij kauzativ Nedjalkov 5 1969 Tipologija kauzativnyx konstrukcij Tipologija kauzativnyx konstrukcij. Morfologičeskij kauzativ Nedjalkov 20 1969 Tipologija morfologičeskogo i leksičeskogo kauzativov Tipologija kauzativnyx konstrukcij. Morfologičeskij kauzativ Nedjalkov 179 1969 Morfologičeskij i leksičeskij kauzativy v nivxskom jazyke Studia z historii czasownika litewskiego. Iteratiwa. Denominatiwa Ostrowski 2006 10.3176/lu.2011.4.03 Finnisch-ugrische Forschungen Pennanen 47 2–3 163 1986 On the so-called curative verbs in Finnish Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics Song S 265 2005 Causatives, semantics of Syntax and Semantics 6: The Grammar of Causative Constructions Talmy 43 1976 10.1163/9789004368842_003 Semantic causative types Towards a Cognitive Semantics Talmy 2000