This article examines various aspects of the reconstruction of the passive in Proto-Indo-
European (PIE), foremost on the basis of evidence from the Indo-Aryan (Early Vedic) and …

Italian is a Romance language, spoken in Italy–including the Republic of San Marino and
the Vatican City–as well as in the Italophone canton Ticino and in the canton Grisons, in …

This paper illustrates the relevance of the Unaccusative Hypothesis for a well‐known area of
Late Latin/early Romance syntax, the proliferation of pleonastic reflexives with intransitive …

The diachrony of valency patterns is generally an understudied phenomenon. The present
article investigates anticausativization from a diachronic perspective, highlighting the …

Middle markers are characterized by a distribution halfway between grammar and the
lexicon: with some verbs, middle marking encodes valency change, while with others it …

This paper discusses basic valency orientation in Hittite, based on the typology proposed in
Nichols et al.(2004). Verb pairs usually employed to test basic valency indicate the clearly …

The paper discusses the phenomenon of Late Latin intransitivizations, where a
morphologically active form of a transitive verb is used with a middle-passive function …

Τhis book offers a new approach to the theory of change in argument structure and voice
morphology. It investigates the diachrony of transitivity, and especially the changes in …

Voice or diathesis, as first termed by Dionysius, is the grammatical category by which the
arguments of the verb receive different prominence status in the sentence through a variety …

This book investigates a large range of changes and their motivations in all parts of the
grammar and lexicon. The core argument is that, in the absence of a Grand Unification …