Contrastive Studies in Verbal Valency
In recent years, issues of verbal valency, valency alternations and verb classes have seen a new upsurge of interest from a variety of perspectives. This book comprises articles investigating valency phenomena on a contrastive basis within Romance, Germanic and Slavic, and also in Basque and in the West-African language Ga, as well as classical Greek and Sanskrit. Phenomena include transitive and ditransitive constructions and alternations, involving reflexives, cognate objects, ’null’ objects, case (in its syntagmatic and paradigmatic aspects), and infinitives, mostly in a synchronic perspective. Aiming at a closer understanding of the range of regularities falling within the concept of valency frames, the book offers a representative array of current assumptions, hypotheses, methodologies and new findings within the overall field. The volume will provide a valuable resource for researchers and students both in general linguistics and in the relevant language particular disciplines.
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 237] 2017. vii, 476 pp.
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© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu In Memoriam
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Introduction. Issues in contrastive valency studiesLars Hellan, Andrej Malchukov and Michela Cennamo | pp. 1–24
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Part I. Argument coding: Case theory and case/valency frames
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Multiple case binding – The principled underspecification of case exponencyWerner Abraham and Elisabeth Leiss | pp. 27–82
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Infinitives: A comparative German-Norwegian studyDorothee Beermann | pp. 83–108
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A labeling system for valency: Linguistic coverage and applicationsMary Esther Kropp Dakubu and Lars Hellan | pp. 109–149
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Non-canonical valency patterns in Basque, variation and evolutionDenis Creissels and Céline Mounole | pp. 151–174
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Part II. Valency rearranging alternations
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Exploring the domain of ditransitive constructions: Ditransitive splits and ditransitive alternations across languagesAndrej L. Malchukov | pp. 177–218
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Cognate constructions in Italian and beyond: A lexical semantic approachChiara Melloni and Francesca Masini | pp. 219–250
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Object omission and the semantics of predicates in Italian in a comparative perspectiveMichela Cennamo | pp. 251–273
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On animacy restrictions for the null object in Brazilian PortugueseSonia Cyrino | pp. 275–294
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Part III. Voice and valency changing (uncoded/coded) alternations and markers
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Between Passive and Middle: Evidence from Greek and beyondLeonid Kulikov and Nikolaos Lavidas | pp. 297–325
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Valency alternations between inflection and derivation: A contrastive analysis of Italian and GermanLivio Gaeta | pp. 327–373
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Pronominal verbs across European languages: What Spanish alternating pronominal verbs revealIsmael Iván Teomiro García | pp. 375–406
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Semantic constraints on the reflexive/non-reflexive alternation of Romanian unaccusativesAdina Dragomirescu and Alexandru Nicolae | pp. 407–430
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Circumfixed causatives in Polish against a panorama of active and non-active voice morphologyAnna Malicka-Kleparska | pp. 431–469
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Subject index
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Language index
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2022. On the transitivisation of intransitive verbs. A Spanish-English contrastive corpus-based analysis of the verbs dormir and sleep. Complutense Journal of English Studies 30 ► pp. 1 ff.
Beermann, Dorothee & Lars Hellan
2020. Enhancing grammar and valence resources for Akan and Ga. In West African languages. Linguistic theory and communication,
Hellan, Lars
2019. Construction-Based Compositional Grammar. Journal of Logic, Language and Information 28:2 ► pp. 101 ff.
Hellan, Lars
2022. A Valence Catalogue for Norwegian. In Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence — NLPinAI 2021 [Studies in Computational Intelligence, 999], ► pp. 49 ff.
Hellan, Lars
2023. A Unified Cluster of Valence Resources. In Logic and Algorithms in Computational Linguistics 2021 (LACompLing2021) [Studies in Computational Intelligence, 1081], ► pp. 311 ff.
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFK: Grammar, syntax
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009060: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax