Changing Valency - Case Studies in Transitivity

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: R. M. W. (La Trobe University Dixon, Robert M. W. Dixon, Robert M. W. Aikhenvald Dixon, Robert M.w. Aikhenvald Dixon
• Con la collaborazione di: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (Editore), Aikhenvald Alexandra Y. (Editore), R. M. W. Dixon (Editore), Dixon R. M. W. (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 10.02.2000
• EAN: 9780521660396
• ISBN: 978-0-521-66039-6
• Pagine: 432
• Categorie: Libri scolastici > Corsi per adulti / università popolare > Materiali per università popolare / materiali per corsi di lingua; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Linguistica generale e comparata; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology