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In Voice and v, Julie Anne Legate investigates the syntactic structure of voice, using Acehnese as the empirical starting point. A central claim is that voice is encoded in a functional projection, VoiceP, which is distinct from, and higher than, vP. Legate further claims that VoiceP may be associated with phi-features that semantically restrict the external argument position but do not saturate it. Through minor variations in the properties of VoiceP, Legate explains a wide range of non-canonical voice constructions, including: agent-agreeing passives, grammatical object passives, impersonals, object voice constructions, and applicative voice in causatives. Her analysis draws on data from a typologically diverse set of languages, not only Malayo-Polynesian, but also Celtic, Scandinavian, and Slavic. Voice and v provides a detailed investigation into the syntactic structure of an understudied Malayo-Polynesian language, and thereby reveals important insights for the theoretical analysis of voice and the verb phrase. Moreover, the work applies and broadens these insights to a range of related passive-like constructions crosslinguistically. Voice and v thus joins a handful of model volumes that enlist typological depth and breadth to further our development of modern linguistic theory.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title page, Copyright, Dedication
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  1. Contents
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  1. Series Foreword
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. Acknowledgments
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  1. Abbreviations
  2. pp. xiii-xiv
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  1. 1 Introduction
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  1. 2 Passive Voice
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  1. 3 Object Voice
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  1. 4 A Cline of Passives
  2. pp. 85-110
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  1. 5 Voice and Causatives
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  1. 6 Conclusion
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  1. Notes
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  1. References
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  1. Index
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  1. Series List
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