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.
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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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015] ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics [CHL] ,
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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