Verb Valency Changes
Theoretical and typological perspectives
Editors
This volume surveys a variety of verb valency change phenomena among diverse languages and from diverse theoretical viewpoints. It offers typological studies comparing languages in topics like applicative polysemy, complex predicate formation and locative alternation, but also works describing the different valency-changing operations in specific languages including West Circassian, Huasteca Nahuatl, Tlachichilco Tepehua and Seri, and works dealing with specific valency change constructions, such as tla- constructions in Nahuatl, resultatives in Yaqui, antipassives in Mocoví, and labile verbs in Arabic. This book aims to put this variety of backdrops in perspective and to clarify the notion and mechanisms of verb valency change. Both scholars and expert readers will get in these works a better understanding of the different verb valency changing operations and of the typological aspects involved in this phenomenon, together with a better grasp of how argument realization and verb morphology are connected in some languages.
[Typological Studies in Language, 120] 2017. xv, 310 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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List of abbreviations | pp. vii–viii
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Preface | pp. x–xv
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Part I. Theoretical perspectives on verb valency change
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Markedness effects in applicative formationAndrej L. Malchukov | pp. 4–29
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Morphosyntactic defectiveness in complex predicate formationM.Teresa Espinal | pp. 32–49
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Two types of locative alternationJaume Mateu | pp. 52–77
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Part II. Verb valency changes across languages
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Transitivity and valency-changing operations in Huasteca NahuatlManuel Peregrina Llanes, Albert Álvarez González and Zarina Estrada-Fernández | pp. 82–105
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The semantics of Nahuatl tla- constructionsÍa Navarro | pp. 108–132
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Valency-changing operations in Yaqui resultativesAlbert Álvarez González | pp. 134–164
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Tlachichilco Tepehua: Semantics and function of verb valency changeJames K. Watters | pp. 166–192
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A panorama of valency changing operations in SeriStephen A. Marlett | pp. 194–225
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The antipassive marking in Mocoví: Forms and functionsCristian Juárez and Albert Álvarez González | pp. 228–255
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Arabic ‘labile verbs’ in form III: Lability or something else?Alexander Letuchiy | pp. 258–284
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Valency-decreasing operations in a valency-increasing language?Yury Lander and Alexander Letuchiy | pp. 286–304
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Language index | pp. 305–306
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Subject index | pp. 307–310
Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFK: Grammar, syntax
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009060: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax