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Changing Valency

Changing Valency Case Studies in Transitivity

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780521660396
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 415
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 413
Weight: 835g
Height: 236mm
Width: 159mm
Spine width: 31mm
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