Valency Classes in the World’s Languages.

Valency Classes in the World’s Languages. / Volume 2, : Case Studies from Austronesia, the Pacific, the Americas, and Theoretical Outlook / / ed. by Andrej Malchukov, Bernard Comrie.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Artawa, Ketut,
Bowden, John,
Campbell, Eric,
Conners, Thomas,
Estrada-Fernández, Zarina,
Evans, Nicholas,
Gil, David,
Goddard, Cliff,
Hartmann, Iren,
Lehmann, Christian,
Levin, Beth,
Miyaoka, Osahito,
Moyse-Faurie, Claire,
Nordhoff, Sebastian,
Rhodes, Richard,
Schultze-Berndt, Eva,
Seifart, Frank,
Shibatani, Masayoshi,
Tsunoda, Tasaku,
Tubino, Mercedes,
Valentine, Rand,
Villalpando, Jesús,
Watanabe, Honoré,
Zúñiga, Fernando,
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] , 1/2
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Physical Description:1 online resource (847 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Andrej Malchukov and the Leipzig Valency Classes Project team 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 Hoocak̨ (Ho-Chunk)
  • 31. Valency classes in Sliammon Salish
  • 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
  • Language index
  • Subject index

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