Product Description: This is the first study devoted to what is known as the subjectless or impersonal passive. The first half of the study examines the function and origin of the impersonal passive from a supra-language perspective. The second half, based on an empirical evaluation of Old, Middle and Early New High German texts from approx...read more

Product Description: This book approaches word classes and their categorial manifestations from the perspective of typology and language universals research. The authors in this volume discuss word class categorization in general (Part I) as well as word classes and word class systems of individual languages (Part II) from a typological-universal viewpoint and from diachronic and cross-linguistic perspectives...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)