Valency classes in the world's languages. Volume 2, Case studies from Austronesia and the Pacific, the Americas, and theoretical outlook. / edited by Andrej Malchukov, Bernard Comrie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

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

Comrie, Bernard, 1947- editor.

Series:

Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics

Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics, 2364-4354 ; Volume 1.2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Contrastive linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (888 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter Mouton, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Earlier empirical studies on valency have looked at the phenomenon either in individual languages or a small range of languages, or have concerned themselves with only small subparts of valency (e.g. transitivity, ditransitive constructions), leaving a lacuna that the present volume aims to fill by considering a wide range of valency phenomena across 30 languages from different parts of the world. The individual-language studies, each written by a specialist or group of specialists on that language and covering both valency patterns and valency alternations, are based on a questionnaire (reproduced in the volume) and an on-line freely accessible database, thus guaranteeing comparability of cross-linguistic results. In addition, introductory chapters provide the background to the project and discuss its main characteristics and selected results, while a series of featured articles by leading scholars who helped shape the field provide an outside perspective on the volume’s approach. The volume is essential reading for anyone interested in valency and argument structure, irrespective of theoretical persuasion, and will serve as a model for future descriptive studies of valency in individual languages.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Andrej Malchukov and the Leipzig Valency Classes Project team Leipzig Questionnaire on valency classes

22. Balinese valency classes

23. Valency classes in Jakarta Indonesian

24. Case frames in Sri Lanka Malay

25. Valency classes in Xârâcùù (New Caledonia)

26. Valency in Nen

27. Complex verbs, simple alternations: valency and verb classes in Jaminjung

28. Valency classes in Central Alaskan Yupik, an Eskimoan language

29. Transitivity in Ojibwe

30. Valency Classes in Hoocak̨ (Ho-Chunk)

31. Valency classes in Sliammon Salish

32. Valency classes in Yaqui

33. Valency classes in Zenzontepec Chatino

34. Valency classes in Yucatec Maya

35. Valency classes in Bora

36. Valency classes in Mapudungun

37. Situation types, valency frames and operations

38. The hierarchy of two-place predicates: its limitations and uses

39. Verb classes within and across languages

40. Verb classes and valency alternations (NSM approach), with special reference to English physical activity verbs

Language index

Subject index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 17, 2015).

ISBN:

9783110429343

3110429349

9783110429374

3110429373

OCLC:

948656337