Valency Classes in the World’s Languages. / Volume 1, : Introducing the Framework, and Case Studies from Africa and Eurasia / / ed. by Andrej Malchukov, Bernard Comrie.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Atoyebi, Joseph Dele,; Barðdal, Jóhanna,; Bickel, Balthasar,; Bisang, Walter,; Blasi, Damian E.,; Bugaeva, Anna,; Cennamo, Michela,; Comrie, Bernard,; Creissels, Denis,; Daniel, Michael,; Egbokhare, Francis O.,; Ernszt, Martina,; Güldemann, Tom,; Hartmann, Iren,; Haspelmath, Martin,; Kageyama, Taro,; Khalilov, Madzhid,; Khalilova, Zaira,; Khurshudian, Victoria,; Kishimoto, Hideki,; Kász, Csilla,; Leipzig Valency Classes Project team,,; Lu, Bingfu,; Malchukov, Andrej,; Nedjalkov, Igor V.,; Paudyal, Netra,; Sasaki, Kan,; Schaefer, Ronald P.,; Schikowski, Robert,; Vajda, Edward J.,; Wichmann, Søren,; Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena,; Zhang, Guohua,
• HerausgeberIn: Comrie, Bernard,; Malchukov, Andrej,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics [CHL] , 1/1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (873 p.)

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• 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
• Subject index