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Verb valency changes : theoretical and typological perspectives /

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 d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Alvarez González, Albert (Editor ), Navarro, Ía (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]
Colección:Typological studies in language ; 120.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Theoretical perspectives on verb valency change. Markedness effects in applicative formation / Andrej L. Malchukov ; Morphosyntactic defectiveness in complex predicate formation / M. Teresa Espinal ; Two types of locative alternation / Jaume Mateu
  • Part II. Verb valency changes across languages. Transitivity and valency-changing operations in Huasteca Nahuatl / Manuel Peregrina Llanes, Albert Álvarez González and Zarina Estrada-Ferndndez ; The semantics of Nahuatl tla- constructions / Ía Navarro ; Valency-changing operations in Yaqui resultatives / Albert Álvarez González ; Tlachichilco Tepehua: Semantics and function of verb valency change / James K. Waiters ; A panorama of valency changing operations in Seri / Stephen A. Marlett ; The antipassive marking in Mocovi: Forms and functions / Cristian Juárez and Albert Álvarez González ; Arabic 'labile verbs' in form III: Lability or something else? / Alexander Letuchiy ; Valency-decreasing operations in a valency-increasing language? / Yury Lander and Alexander Letuchiy.