The Passive Voice in Lithuanian
What is it about?
This unique volume comprises a monograph and a set of articles by renowned typologist Emma Geniušienė which all focus on the topic of morphologically passive constructions in Lithuanian. It is the first translation into English of the author’s original work from the 1970s. It offers a rich treasury of data, a detailed structural description of all morphologically passive constructions, and an examination of the functions which these constructions have in the discourse. The addition of modern interlinear morpheme-by-morpheme glosses to hundreds of linguistic examples and expert editorial work have turned the hard-to-access material into a timeless resource available for the first time to a broad international readership.
Why is it important?
This is a careful and detailed description of the structure and functioning of the passive voice in Lithuanian, which will be useful to syntacticians working within different frameworks, typologists, descriptive linguists, etc.