Transitivity

Form, Meaning, Acquisition, and Processing

Editors

Patrick Brandt

| University of Cologne

Marco García García

| University of Freiburg

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What happens when a canonically transitive form meets a canonically transitive meaning, and what happens when this doesn’t happen? How do dyadic forms relate to monadic ones, and what are the entailments of the operations that the grammar uses to relate one to the other? Collecting original expert work from acquisition, processing, typological and theoretical syntax-semantics research, this volume provides a state of the art as well as cutting edge discussion of central issues in the realm of Transitivity. These include the definition and role of "Natural Transitivity", the interpretation and repercussions of valency changing operations and differential case marking, and the interactions between (in)transitive Gestalts in different categories and at different levels of representation.

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 166] 2010. vii, 308 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/la.166

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	i–vi
Trans-duction Patrick Brandt and Marco García García	1–12
Part I. Form and Meaning
Types of transitivity, intransitive objects, and untransitivity – and the logic of their structural designs: Ways to keep apart derivation in syntax and in the lexicon Werner Abraham	15–68
The interaction of transitivity features in the sinhala involitive John Beavers and Cala Zubair	69–94
Transitivity in Chinese experiencer object verbs Elisabeth Verhoeven	95–118
Non-zero/non-zero alternations in differential object marking Stefan Keine and Gereon Müller	119–140
Part II. Acquisition and processing
Children and transitivity: The subject-object asymmetry in a natural setting Lotte Hogeweg and Helen de Hoop	143–160
Grammatical transitivity vs. interpretive distinctness: The case for a separation of two levels of representation that are often conflated Matthias Schlesewsky, Kamal Kumar Choudhary and Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky	161–188
Part III. Transitivity and diathesis
The space between one and two: Transitives, intransitives and the middle voice Kees de Schepper	191–208
Event-structure and individuation in impersonal passives Beatrice Primus †	209–234
Part IV. Crosslinguistic and crosscategorical considerations
Lability and spontaneity Alexander Letuchiy	237–256
Transitivity of deverbal nominals and aspectual modifiers of the verbal stem (evidence from Russian) Anna Pazelskaya	257–278
Individuation and semantic role interpretation in the adpositional domain Sander Lestrade and Peter de Swart	279–300
Language index	301–302
Subject index	303–308

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Subjects

Linguistics

Syntax

Semantics

Theoretical linguistics

BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2010022886 | Marc record