Ergativity, Valency and Voice /

Ergativity, Valency and Voice / / ed. by Gilles Authier, Katharina Haude.

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This volume is a collection of articles concerned with the typology of valency and valence change in a large and diversified sample of languages that display ergative alignment in their grammar. The sample of languages represented in these descriptive contributions covers most of the geographical ar...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Authier, Gilles,
Becquelin, Aurore Monod,
Becquey, Cédric,
Grinevald, Colette,
Guillaume, Antoine,
Haude, Katharina,
Jacques, Guillaume,
Lacroix, René,
Letuchiy, Alexander,
Mounole, Céline,
Peake, Marc,
Queixalós, Francesc,
Vapnarsky, Valentina,
HerausgeberIn:
Authier, Gilles,
Haude, Katharina,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] , 48
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Physical Description:1 online resource (387 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of contents
  • List of contributors
  • Introduction
  • Ergativity and voice in Mayan languages: a functional-typological approach
  • Ergativity and the passive in three Mayan languages
  • A tale of two passives in Cavineña
  • The detransitive voice in Kryz
  • Laz middle voice
  • Argument demotion in Japhug Rgyalrong
  • The Katukina-Kanamari antipassive
  • Undergoer orientation in Movima
  • Case patterns and verb classes in Trumai
  • Ergativity in the Adyghe system of valencychanging derivations
  • The evolution of transitive verbs in Basque and the emergence of dative-marked patients
  • Index of subjects
  • Index of languages

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