Changing Valency: Case Studies in Transitivity - Couverture souple

Dixon, R

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521135206 ISBN 13 : 9780521135207

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Distinguished scholars examine the phenomena of passives and causatives in languages from around the world.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book provides a general perspective on valency-changing mechanisms - passives, antipassives, causatives, applicatives - in the languages of the world. It contains a comprehensive typology of causatives by R. M. W. Dixon, and detailed descriptions of valency-changing mechanisms in ten individual languages by leading scholars, based on original fieldwork. The sample languages span five continents and every kind of structural profile. Each contributor draws out the theoretical status and implications of valency-changing derivations in their language of study, and the relevant parameters are drawn together, and typological possibilities delineated, in the editors' introduction. The volume, originally published in 2000, will interest typologists, those working in the fields of morphosyntactic variation and lexical semantics, and exponents of formal theories engaging with the range of linguistic diversity found in natural language.

Revue de presse

Review of the hardback: 'This book is a grammatical sampler, and as such a joy in itself to typologists. Theory falls away, and the languages speak through their interpreters.' Modern Language Review

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521135206
• ISBN 13: 9780521135207
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 432
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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