Changing Valency: Case Studies in Transitivity - Softcover

 
9780521135207: Changing Valency: Case Studies in Transitivity
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521135206 ISBN 13: 9780521135207
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

This book presents a wealth of information on some of the most interesting languages in the world, most of them little-known in the linguistics literature. The distinguished team of authors have each examined "valency-changing mechanisms" (phenomena including passives and causatives) in languages ranging from Amazonian Tariana to Alaskan Eskimo, from Australian Ngan'gityemerri to Tsez from the Caucasus. R. M. W. Dixon has also contributed a comprehensive chapter on causatives across the languages of the world. The volume will provide valuable insights both for formal theoreticians and for linguistic typologists.

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Review

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

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521135206
ISBN 13 
9780521135207
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
432
Editor
Dixon R. M. W., Aikhenvald Alexandra Y.

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