Changing Valency

Klappentext Distinguished scholars examine the phenomena of passives and causatives in languages from around the world. Zusammenfassung This book! originally published in 2000! examines 'valency-changing mechanisms' (phenomena including passives and causatives) in some of the most interesting languages in the world. The distinguished team of authors has drawn on original fieldwork in five continents in this study! which will provide valuable insights both for formal theoreticians and for linguistic typologists. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction R. M. W. Dixon and Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald; 2. A typology of causatives: Form, syntax and meaning R. M. W. Dixon; 3. Valency-changing derivation in Central Alaskan Yup'ik Marianne Mithun; 4. Transitivity and valency-changing derivations in Motuna Masayuki Onishi; 5. Transitivity in Tariana Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald; 6. Voice and valency in the Athapaskan family Keren Rice; 7. Valency-changing derivations in K'iche' Lyle Campbell; 8. Valency-changing derivations in Dulong/Rawang Randy J. LaPolla; 9. Valency-changing and valency-encoding devices in Amharic Mengistu Amberber; 10. Complex verb collocations in Ngan'gityemerri: a non-derivational strategy for encoding valency alternations Nicholas Reid; 11. Valency-changing derivations in Tsez Bernard Comrie; 12. Creek voice: Beyond valency Jack Martin.

Product details

• Authors: R. M. W. Dixon, R.M.W. Dixon
• Assisted by: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (Editor), Aikhenvald Alexandra Y. (Editor), R. M. W. Dixon (Editor), Dixon R. M. W. (Editor)
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.03.2010
• EAN: 9780521135207
• ISBN: 978-0-521-13520-7
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology