Valency classes in the world's languages. Volume 2, Case studies from Austronesia and the Pacific, the Americas, and theoretical outlook /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Malʹchukov, A. L. (Andreĭ Lʹvovich) (Editor), Comrie, Bernard, 1947- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, [2015]
Series:Comparative handbooks of linguistics.
Subjects:
Dependency grammar > Case studies.
Language and languages > Dependency grammar > Case studies.
Language and languages > Case studies.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Transitivity.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Case.
Contrastive linguistics > Case studies.
Grammaire de dépendance > Études de cas.
Langage et langues > Grammaire de dépendance > Études de cas.
Langage et langues > Études de cas.
Transitivité (Linguistique)
Cas (Linguistique)
Linguistique contrastive > Études de cas.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Syntax.
Contrastive linguistics
Dependency grammar
Grammar, Comparative and general > Case
Grammar, Comparative and general > Transitivity
Language and languages
Valency, Verb Classes, Argument Alternations.
Case studies
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Leipzig Questionnaire on valency classes ; Part II: Case Studies (cont.) ; Austronesia and the Pacific ; 22 Balinese valency classes ; 23 Valency classes in Jakarta Indonesian ; 24 Case frames in Sri Lanka Malay ; 25 Valency classes in Xârâcùù (New Caledonia).
  • 26 Valency in Nen 27 Complex verbs, simple alternations: valency and verb classes in Jaminjung ; Americas ; 28 Valency classes in Central Alaskan Yupik, an Eskimoan language ; 29 Transitivity in Ojibwe ; 30 Valency Classes in Hoocak? (Ho-Chunk).
  • 31 Valency classes in Sliammon Salish~1~ 32 Valency classes in Yaqui ; 33 Valency classes in Zenzontepec Chatino ; 34 Valency classes in Yucatec Maya ; 35 Valency classes in Bora ; 36 Valency classes in Mapudungun ; Part III: Theoretical Outlook.
  • 37 Situation types, valency frames and operations 38 The hierarchy of two-place predicates: its limitations and uses ; 39 Verb classes within and across languages ; 40 Verb classes and valency alternations (NSM approach), with special reference to English physical activity verbs.

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