[review of:] Anna Kibort & Nijolė Maskaliūnienė (ed.). 2016. Passive Constructions in Lithuanian: Selected Works of Emma Geniušienė

Abstract

Anna Kibort & Nijolė Maskaliūnienė (ed.). 2016. Passive Constructions in Lithuanian: Selected Works of Emma Geniušienė. (Studies in Language Companion Series, 179). Amsterdam-Philadelphia: John Benjamins Company.

This volume, a collection of newly translated works by Emma Geniušienė, including her 1973 dissertation, contains some of the first and most extensive examinations of passive constructions in Lithuanian. Variuos functions of Lithuanian passive constructions have been widely examined, and these translations make these studies of passives available to a much wider audience.

Keywords

review; Emma Geniušienė; passive constructions; Passive Constructions in Lithuanian; Lithuanian