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Valency classes in the world's languages. Volume 1, Introducing the framework, and case studies from Africa and Eurasia /

Earlier empirical studies on valency have looked at the phenomenon either in individual languages or a small range of languages, or have concerned themselves with only small subparts of valency (e.g. transitivity, ditransitive constructions), leaving a lacuna that the present volume aims to fill by...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Malchukov, Andrej
Otros Autores: Malʹchukov, A. L. (Andreĭ Lʹvovich), Comrie, Bernard, 1947-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, ©2015.
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Colección:Comparative handbooks of linguistics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Abbreviations ; Acknowledgments ; List of authors ; Part I: The Leipzig Valency Classes Project: Introducing the Framework ; 1 Introduction ; 2 Leipzig Questionnaire on valency classes ; 3 Comparing verbal valency across languages.
  • 4 Valency classes and alternations: parameters of variation 5 Transitivity prominence ; 5a Assessing transitivity prominence from a statistical perspective: A commentary on Martin Haspelmath's "Transitivity prominence" ; 6 Statistical observations on implicational (verb) hierarchies.
  • Part II: Case Studies Africa ; 7 Valency in Nllng ; 8 Valency properties of Mandinka verbs ; 9 Emai valency classes and their alternations ; 10 Valency classes in Yorùbá ; 11 Valency properties of verbs in Modern Standard Arabic ; Eurasia.
  • 12 Icelandic valency classes: oblique subjects, oblique ambitransitives and the actional passive 13 Valency patterns in Italian ; 14 Valency classes in Eastern Armenian ; 15 Valency and valency classes in Bezhta.
  • 16 Valency classes in Even (North Tungusic) in a comparative Tungusic perspective 17 Valency properties of the Ket verb clause ; 18 Flexible valency in Chintang ; 19 Valency classes in Mandarin ; 20 Valency classes in Japanese ; 21 Valency classes in Ainu ; Language index.