Verb valency changes : theoretical and typological perspectives / edited by Albert Álvarez González, University of Sonora, and Ía Navarro, University of Sonora.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alvarez González, Albert, editor, contributor.

Navarro, Ía, editor, contributor.

Letuchiy, Alexander, contributor.

Malʹchukov, A. L. (Andreĭ Lʹvovich), contributor.

Juárez, Cristian, contributor.

Waiters, James K., contributor.

Mateu i Giral, Jaume, contributor.

Espinal i Farré, Maria Teresa, contributor.

Peregrina Llanes, Manuel, contributor.

Marlett, Stephen A. (Stephen Alan), 1951- contributor.

Lander, I︠U︡. A. (I︠U︡riĭ Aleksandrovich), contributor.

Estrada Fernández, Zarina, contributor.

Series:

Typological studies in language ; 120.

Typological studies in language, 0167-7373 ; 120

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dependency grammar.

Physical Description:

xv, 310 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]

Summary:

This volume surveys a variety of verb valency change phenomena among diverse languages and from diverse theoretical viewpoints. It offers typological studies comparing languages in topics like applicative polysemy, complex predicate formation and locative alternation, but also works describing the different valency-changing operations in specific languages including West Circassian, Huasteca Nahuatl, Tlachichilco Tepehua and Seri, and works dealing with specific valency change constructions, such as tla- constructions in Nahuatl, resultatives in Yaqui, antipassives in Mocovi, and labile verbs in Arabic. This book aims to put this variety of backdrops in perspective and to clarify the notion and mechanisms of verb valency change. Both scholars and expert readers will get in these works a better understanding of the different verb valency changing operations and of the typological aspects involved in this phenomenon, together with a better grasp of how argument realization and verb morphology are connected in some languages.

Contents:

Part I. Theoretical perspectives on verb valency change. Markedness effects in applicative formation / Andrej L. Malchukov ; Morphosyntactic defectiveness in complex predicate formation / M. Teresa Espinal ; Two types of locative alternation / Jaume Mateu

Part II. Verb valency changes across languages. Transitivity and valency-changing operations in Huasteca Nahuatl / Manuel Peregrina Llanes, Albert Álvarez González and Zarina Estrada-Ferndndez ; The semantics of Nahuatl tla- constructions / Ía Navarro ; Valency-changing operations in Yaqui resultatives / Albert Álvarez González ; Tlachichilco Tepehua: Semantics and function of verb valency change / James K. Waiters ; A panorama of valency changing operations in Seri / Stephen A. Marlett ; The antipassive marking in Mocovi: Forms and functions / Cristian Juárez and Albert Álvarez González ; Arabic 'labile verbs' in form III: Lability or something else? / Alexander Letuchiy ; Valency-decreasing operations in a valency-increasing language? / Yury Lander and Alexander Letuchiy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Verb valency changes.

ISBN:

9789027207012

9027207011

9789027265265

9027265267

OCLC:

985077683