Contrastive studies in verbal valency / edited by Lars Hellan, Andrej Malchukov, Michela Cennamo.

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Book
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English
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]
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vi, 476 pages ; 25 cm.

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    • Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 237. [More in this series]
    • Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today (LA), 0166-0829 ; volume 237
    Summary note
    In recent years, issues of verbal valency, valency alternations and verb classes have seen a new upsurge of interest from a variety of perspectives. This book comprises articles investigating valency phenomena on a contrastive basis within Romance, Germanic and Slavic, and also in Basque and in the West-African language Ga, as well as classical Greek and Sanskrit. Phenomena include transitive and ditransitive constructions and alternations, involving reflexives, cognate objects,?null? objects, case (in its syntagmatic and paradigmatic aspects), and infinitives, mostly in a synchronic perspective. Aiming at a closer understanding of the range of regularities falling within the concept of valency frames, the book offers a representative array of current assumptions, hypotheses, methodologies and new findings within the overall field. The volume will provide a valuable resource for researchers and students both in general linguistics and in the relevant language particular disciplines.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Mary esther kropp dakubu in memoriam
    • Introduction
    • Issues in contrastive valency studies / Lars Hellan, Andrej Malchukov and Michela Cennamo
    • Argument coding : case theory and case, valency frames
    • Multiple case binding : the principled underspecification of case exponency / Werner Abraham and Elisabeth Leiss
    • Infinitives : a comparative German-Norwegian study / Dorothee Beermann
    • A labeling system for valency : linguistic coverage and applications / Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu and Lars Hellan
    • Non-canonical valency patterns in basque, variation and evolution / Denis Creissels and Céline Mounole
    • Valency rearranging alternations
    • Exploring the domain of ditransitive constructions : ditransitive splits and ditransitive alternations across languages / Andrej L. Malchukov
    • Cognate constructions in Italian and beyond : a lexical semantic approach / Chiara Melloni and Francesca Masini
    • Object omission and the semantics of predicates in Italian in a comparative perspective / Michela Cennamo
    • On animacy restrictions for the null object in Brazilian Portuguese / Sonia Cyrino
    • Voice and valency changing (uncoded, coded) alternations and markers
    • Between passive and middle : evidence from Greek and beyond / Leonid Kulikov and Nikolaos Lavidas
    • Valency alternations between inflection and derivation : a contrastive analysis of Italian and German / Livio Gaeta
    • Pronominal verbs across European languages : what Spanish alternating pronominal verbs reveal / Ismael Iván Teomiro García
    • Semantic constraints on the reflexive, non-reflexive alternation of Romanian unaccusatives / Adina Dragomirescu and Alexandru Nicolae
    • Circumfixed causatives in polish against a panorama of active and non-active voice morphology / Anna Malicka-Kleparska
    • Language index
    • Subject index.
    ISBN
    • 9789027257208 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
    • 9027257205 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
    LCCN
    2016048823
    OCLC
    961410480
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