Verb Valency Changes
Theoretical and typological perspectives
Editors
| University of Sonora
| University of Sonora
This volume surveys a variety of verb valency change phenomena among diverse languages and from diverse theoretical viewpoints. It offers typological studies comparing languages in topics like applicative polysemy, complex predicate formation and locative alternation, but also works describing the different valency-changing operations in specific languages including West Circassian, Huasteca Nahuatl, Tlachichilco Tepehua and Seri, and works dealing with specific valency change constructions, such as tla- constructions in Nahuatl, resultatives in Yaqui, antipassives in Mocoví, and labile verbs in Arabic. This book aims to put this variety of backdrops in perspective and to clarify the notion and mechanisms of verb valency change. Both scholars and expert readers will get in these works a better understanding of the different verb valency changing operations and of the typological aspects involved in this phenomenon, together with a better grasp of how argument realization and verb morphology are connected in some languages.
[Typological Studies in Language, 120] 2017. xv, 310 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
List of abbreviations
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vii–viii
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Preface
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x–xv
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Part I. Theoretical perspectives on verb valency change
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4–77
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4–29
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32–49
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52–77
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Part II. Verb valency changes across languages
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82–304
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82–105
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108–132
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134–164
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166–192
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194–225
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228–255
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258–284
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286–304
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Language index
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305–306
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Subject index
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307
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Language index
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305–306
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Subject index
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307–310
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Subjects
BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax
BISAC Subject: LAN009060 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax