Valency over Time : : Diachronic Perspectives on Valency Patterns and Valency Orientation / / ed. by Silvia Luraghi, Elisa Roma.

• Funder: Università di Pavia
• MitwirkendeR: Arjava, Heini,; Cennamo, Michela,; Creissels, Denis,; Grossman, Eitan,; Grünthal, Riho,; Himmelmann, Nikolaus P.,; Inglese, Guglielmo,; Lehtinen, Jyri,; Luraghi, Silvia,; Malcher, Kurt,; Mertyris, Dionysios,; Nichols, Johanna,; Riesberg, Sonja,; Roma, Elisa,; Tarsi, Matteo,; Zanchi, Chiara,
• HerausgeberIn: Luraghi, Silvia,; Roma, Elisa,
• Author: Università di Pavia
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] Ser.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (V, 341 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Valency patterns and valency orientation have been frequent topics of research under different perspectives, often poorly connected. Diachronic studies on these topics is even less systematic than synchronic ones. The papers in this book bring together two strands of research on valency, i.e. the de...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Valency and transitivity over time: An introduction
• Transitivity, diachrony, and language contact
• Valency patterns and alternations in Gothic
• Valency Patterns of Old Irish verbs: finite and non-finite syntax
• Anticausativization and basic valency orientation in Latin
• Basic valency in diachrony: from Ancient to Modern Greek
• Basic causative verb patterns in Uralic: Retention and renewal in grammar and lexicon
• The many ways of transitivization in Totoli
• Anticausatives and lability in Italian and French: a diachronic-synchronic comparative study
• Phonologically conditioned lability in Soninke (West-Mande) and its historical explanation
• Index of Authors
• Index of Subjects
• Index of Languages