Typology of Verbal Categories : : Papers Presented to Vladimir Nedjalkov on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday / / ed. by Leonid Kulikov, Heinz Vater.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y.,; Auwera, Johan van der,; Bisang, Walter,; Bynon, Theodora,; Comrie, Bernard,; Desclés, Jean-Pierre,; Drossard, Werner,; Groot, Casper de,; Guentchéva, Zlatka,; Kazenin, Konstantin,; Kerke, Simon van de,; Klein, Wolfgang,; Knjazev, Jurij P.,; Kordi, Elena,; Kulikov, Leonid,; Lazard, Gilbert,; Lötzsch, Ronald,; Moreno Cabrera, Juan C.,; Ogloblin, Alexander K.,; Panevová, Jarmila,; Sgall, Petr,; Shibatani, Masayoshi,; Testelec, Yakov G.,; Vater, Heinz,
• HerausgeberIn: Kulikov, Leonid,; Vater, Heinz,
• Place / Publishing House: Tübingen : : Max Niemeyer Verlag, , [2013]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Linguistische Arbeiten , 382
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (310 p.) :; Zahlr. Abb.

The typological studies of this volume are oriented towards the areas of interests of the Russian typologist Vladimir P. Nedjalkov, to whom the volume is dedicated. They deal with the typology of verbal categories. The book is divided into three parts: 1. "Ergativity and transitivity", 2. "Voice, causative and valency", 3. "Tense and mood". In all three parts of the volume instances of grammaticalization are pointed out and investigated. The studies concern various languages, e.g. English, French, German, Russian, Hungarian, Dutch, Tariana (a North Arawak language from North West Amazonia), Dumi (a Tibeto-Burman language), and Lak (a Daghestanian language).

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. ERGATIVITY AND TRANSITIVITY -- Causalité, Causativité, Transitivité -- On Two Parameters of Transitivity -- Transitivity Increasing Operations in Tariana -- How to Butter a Sandwich. On ‘spread' in Dutch and Hungarian from a Typological Perspective -- Labile Konstruktionen -- Inverse Direction and Second Person in Dumi -- On Patient Demotion in Lak -- II. VOICE, CAUSATIVE AND VALENCY -- Voice Parameters -- Passive, Anticausative and Classification of Verbs: The Case of Vedic -- Allocutivity and Voice in the Basque Verb -- From Inert to Actional Causative -- Towards a Typology of Grammatical Polysemy: Reflexive Markers as Markers of Reciprocity -- Verb Formation in Leko: Causatives, Reflexives and Reciprocals -- ΙII. TENSE AND MOOD -- Verbal Categories, Meaning and Typology -- The Perfect in English and German -- L’expression de l’irréel: essai de typologie -- Sur le paradigme complet de l’impératif français -- IV. VERBAL CATEGORIES AND LANGUAGE UNIVERSALS -- Verb Serialization and Attractor Positions: Constructions and Their Potential Impact on Language Change and Language Contact -- Defining Converbs -- Translatability and Universals Revisited -- Die Verneinung als funktional-semantische Kategorie (unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Streckformen des Deutschen und Russischen) -- List of Contributors