"Presentis a collection of studies on middle-voice grams in Baltic, that is, on a widely ramified family of constructions with different syntactic and semantic properties but sharing a morphological marker of reflexive origin. Though the emphasis is on Baltic, ample attention is given to other languages as well, especially to Slavonic. The book offers many new insights into questions of syntactic and semantic interpretation, correct demarcation and diachronic explanation of middle-voice grams. The relationship between reflexive and middle, the workings of metonymy, changes in syntactic structure and lexical input as factors determining diachronic shifts within the middle-voice domain and transitions from one middle-voice gram to another - these are among the topics discussed in the book, which, beyond its relevance to Baltic and Slavonic scholarship, is also a contribution to the typology of the middle voice"--.

• The Middle Voice in Baltic
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication page
• Table of contents
• Acknowledgement
• List of grammatical abbreviations
• Preface
• Chapter 1. Reflexives and middles
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Reflexive and middle
  • 1.3 Explaining split reflexivity and reciprocity
  • 1.4 Syntax and semantics
  • 1.5 Chronology
  • 1.6 Natural reciprocals
  • 1.7 Autobenefactive reflexive verbs
  • 1.8 Middle-voice markers licenced by prefixation
  • 1.9 In conclusion
• Chapter 2. Metonymy and antimetonymy
  • 2.1 The natural reflexive and metonymy
  • 2.2 Extended metonymy
  • 2.3 Metonymic reflexives and antipassives
  • 2.4 Antimetonymic middles in Polish and elsewhere
  • 2.5 Antimetonymic middles and antipassives
  • 2.6 In conclusion
• Chapter 3. Antipassive middles
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Definition
  • 3.3 Antipassives, deobjectives and deaccusatives
  • 3.4 Deobjectives 1: The behaviour-characterizing use
  • 3.5 Deobjectives 2: The activity subtype
  • 3.6 Diachrony: The rise of deobjectives
  • 3.7 Deaccusatives
    • 3.7.1 The locative subtype
    • 3.7.2 The instrumental subtype
  • 3.8 The functional features of the deaccusative type
  • 3.9 Diachrony: Deobjectives and deaccusatives
  • 3.10 In conclusion
• Chapter 4. The permissive middle
  • 4.1 The notion of permissive middle
  • 4.2 The rise of the permissive middle
  • 4.3 Old Lithuanian
  • 4.4 Latvian
  • 4.5 Two kinds of permissive middles
  • 4.6 Syntactic interpretation
  • 4.7 Autopermissive complement-taking verbs
  • 4.8 Lexical permissives
  • 4.9 The permissive middle in Slavonic
  • 4.10 Permissives and curatives
  • 4.11 Broader outlook
• Chapter 5. The anticausative
  • 5.1 On the notion of anticausative
  • 5.2 Argument structure
  • 5.3 Surface-impact verbs
  • 5.4 Surface-impact verbs and their anticausative derivatives
  • 5.5 So-called converse reflexives
  • 5.6 Emotive predicates
  • 5.7 ‘Reflection’ verbs
  • 5.8 Phasal anticausatives
  • 5.9 The status of converse reflexives
  • 5.10 Unpaired surface-impact anticausatives
  • 5.11 Surface-impact verbs elsewhere in grammar
  • 5.12 In conclusion
• Chapter 6. Facilitatives
  • 6.1 The notion of facilitatives
  • 6.2 The classification of facilitatives
  • 6.3 Adverbial modifiers
  • 6.4 The expression of the agent and its syntactic status
  • 6.5 Facilitatives from intransitives
  • 6.6 Impersonal transitive facilitatives
  • 6.7 Imperfective and perfective extensions
  • 6.8 In conclusion
• Chapter 7. Further extensions from the facilitative middle
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 The naturally non-volitional type
  • 7.3 The achievement type
  • 7.4 Non-volitional middles from one-place predicates
  • 7.5 The desiderative extension
  • 7.6 In conclusion
• Chapter 8. The coargumental middle
  • 8.1 Logophoric middles or coargumental middles
  • 8.2 Permissive verbs
  • 8.3 Speech-act verbs and verbs of belief
  • 8.4 Between speech act verbs and verbs of intention
  • 8.5 Desiderative verbs
  • 8.6 In conclusion
• Chapter 9. In conclusion
• Bibliography
  • Online sources
  • Text editions, oral folklore collections
  • References
• Name index
• Language index
• Subject index