Table of contents
List of abbreviations
vii
Part I.Theoretical perspectives on verb valency change
Markedness effects in applicative formation
3
Morphosyntactic defectiveness in complex predicate formation
31
Two types of locative alternation
51
Part II.Verb valency changes across languages
Transitivity and valency-changing operations in Huasteca Nahuatl
81
The semantics of Nahuatl tla- constructions
107
Valency-changing operations in Yaqui resultatives
133
Tlachichilco Tepehua: Semantics and function of verb valency change
165
Panorama of valency changing operations in Seri
193
The antipassive marking in Mocoví: Forms and functions
227
Arabic ‘labile verbs’ in form III: lability or something else?
257
Valency-decreasing operations in a valency-increasing language?
285
Language index
305
Subject index
307
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