Transitivity and valency: from theory to acquisition
An overview
Article outline
- Introduction
- 1.Voice
- 2.Valency and argument structure
- 3.Transitivity alternations
- 3.1Projectionist models
- 3.2Some ‘constructional’ accounts
- 4.Transitivity and acquisition
- 5.Frequency-based vs Universal Grammar-based language acquisition
- 6.The papers in this collection
- 7.Some final points
- Notes
-
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