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Gender differences in the temporal voice areas [PDF]
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2014 There is not only evidence for behavioral differences in voice perception between female and male listeners, but also recent suggestions for differences in neural correlates between genders.
Merle Marie Ahrens +6 more
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Subject autonomy marking in Macro-Tani and the typology of middle voice
Linguistics, 2022 Middle voice constructions are generally understood as syntactically detransitivizing and as semantically characterized by a “low degree of event elaboration” (in Kemmer’s terms) involving a relatively affected subject.
Post Mark W., Modi Yankee
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Hermeneutics, Practice, Event. An Attempt at Re-Conceptualizing Human Agency [PDF]
Phainomena, 2023 The paper deals with the problem of a re-conceptualization of the basic modes of human agency. This task is prompted by a consideration, according to which our traditional conceptuality (going back to the Greek distinction between poiesis and praxis ...
Miklós Nyírő
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Lidil, 2021 The paper proposes the hypothesis that “non-canonical passives”, namely sentences without agent or cause are closer to middle voice than to passive voice.
Anna Sőrés
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L2 processing facilitation by constructional similarity: beyond word order correspondence
Revista Linguística, 2022 Structural similarity between a bilingual’s two languages, defined by word order correspondence, reflects the surprisal levels (inverse-frequency effect) associated with sentence processing in the L2.
Mara Passos Guimarães
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Bribri media tantum verbs and the rise of labile syntax
Linguistics, 2022 In this article, we first show that the Bribri (Chibchan) middle voice suffix -r derives passive voice from active transitive and agentive intransitive verbs, as well as anticausative verbs from nominal and adjectival roots.
Pacchiarotti Sara, Kulikov Leonid
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A “Middle Voice” from the South
Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 2021 In the 2020 Prague Virtual Conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), Sharon Traweek was awarded the society’s John D. Bernal Prize jointly with Langdon Winner.
Jorge Núñez, Maka Suarez
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Keria: Studia Latina et Graeca, 2020 It has long been taken for granted in reference works, grammars and elementary introductions that Ancient Greek had three grammatical voices, active, passive and middle. Yet scholars have always had great difficulty in characterising the middle voice in
Geoffrey Horrocks
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Voice Syncretism Crosslinguistically: The View from Minimalism
Philosophies, 2022 Voice syncretism is widely attested crosslinguistically. In this paper, we discuss three different types of Voice syncretism, under which the same morpheme participates in different configurations.
Despina Oikonomou, Artemis Alexiadou
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International Journal of Child, Youth & Family Studies, 2020 This research paper explores the trends of presenting political and social realities in Arabic children’s literature through a content analysis of 26 award-winning Arabic children’s books published between 2011 and 2018 — after the Arab Spring.
Nisreen Anati
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