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Voice and Diathesis
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“Voice,” “diathesis,” and “genus verbi” are terms that have been employed in very different ways, particularly in approaches to the lexicon and (morpho)syntactic interface of Slavic languages. Theoretical assumptions concerning grammar and lexicon (first of all, notions about lexical units, grammatical categ…

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Wiemer, Björn, “Voice and Diathesis”, in: Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics Online, Editor-in-Chief General Editor Marc L. Greenberg, Lenore A. Grenoble. Consulted online on 29 November 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2589-6229_ESLO_COM_034742>
First published online: 2020



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