Grammatical roles and relations / F.R. Palmer.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-252) and indexes.

Practical and arguments -- Grammatical roles -- grammatical relations -- Passive and antipassive -- Other issues -- Agent and patient -- Subject,object and intimacy --Beneficiary-dative -- Primary and secondary objects -- Experiencers,"model subjects -- Locatives and instrumentals -- other roles and sub-roles -- Problem constructio -- Ergative marking -- Conflicting criteria -- Variation by grammatical category -- Systems with three basic reletions -- Agentive systems -- Georgian and tabassaran -- syntactic pivots -- Syntax vs morphology --Pivots and dative subjects -- Imperatives -- Pivots in ban agentive system -- The identification of the passive -- Promotion of the Object -- Promotion of oblique terms -- Impersonal and affected passives -- Passive and topicalization -- Fuctions of the passive -- Varieties of passive -- Reflectives and indefintes as passives --Other paasive -like constructions --The middle voice --Multiple functions of passive markers -- Passive in eegative systems -- Promotion to object -- Theetical issues --Froms of antipassivr -- Fuctions of antipassive -- Promotion of oblique relations -- Detransitives without antipassive --Incorporation --Lexical issues -- Antipassives in accusative systems -- The typological status of ergative systems -- Topic systems -- Inverse systems and passives -- Forms of causative -- Forms of Causative -- The paradigm case -- Double causatives -- Related constructions -- Adversity passives -- An alternative interpretation of causatives -- Final observations