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• Acknowledgements 8
• 1.0 Introduction 10
• 1.1 Purpose of this study 10
• 1. Preliminaries 10
• 1.2 Subject matter of this study 11
• 1.3 Methodological considerations 20
• 2. Background 22
• 2.1 Previous classifications of SICH/SJA-verbs 22
• 2.2 Transitivity 27
• 2.3 Voice 30
• 2.4 Transitivity and voice 37
• 2.5 Comparison of some recent treatments of SICH/SJA-verbs 37
• 3.1 Explanation of the theoretical framework 47
• 3. The contrastive analysis 47
• 3.2 Derived Intransitivity in Russian 48