Verb valency changes : theoretical and typological perspectives / edited by Albert Alvarez Gonzalez and Ia Navarro.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alvarez González, Albert, editor.

Navarro, Ía, editor.

Series:

Typological studies in language ; Volume 120.

Typological Studies in Language, 0167-7373 ; Volume 120

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dependancy grammar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, [Netherland] ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : 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 Mocoví, 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:

Intro

Verb Valency Changes

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

List of abbreviations

Preface

Overview of the papers

Part I. Theoretical perspectives on verb valency change

Markedness effects in applicative formation

1. Voice ambivalence: Preliminary illustrations

2. Causative-applicative polysemy

3. Applicative-antipassive polysemy

4. Applicative reversal

5. Conclusions

Acknowledgements

References

Morphosyntactic defectiveness in complex predicate formation

1. Introduction

2. Theoretical background

2.1 Mithun's (1984) types of NI

2.2 Conceptual approach to NI (Borthen 2003

Carlson 2010)

2.3 Towards a morphosyntactic approach to NI

3. Morphosyntactic defectiveness in NI

3.1 NI in Uto-Aztecan (Jelinek 1998

Haugen 2007, 2008)

3.2 NI in Romance (Dobrovie-Sorin et al. 2006

Espinal 2010

Espinal &amp

McNally 2007a, 2007b, 2011)

3.3 Clitic incorporation in Mexican Spanish (Navarro 2009

Navarro &amp

Espinal 2012)

4. Conclusions

Two types of locative alternation

2. Incorporation and conflation processes: A syntactic approach

3. The locative alternation variants as resultative-like constructions

4. The prefixed variants of locative alternation

Acknowledgments

Part II. Verb valency changes across languages

Transitivity and valency-changing operations in Huasteca Nahuatl

2. The language and the data

3. The notions of transitivity and valency.

4. Transitivity and valency-changing operations in Huasteca Nahuatl

4.1 Intransitive, transitive and ditransitive clauses in Huasteca Nahuatl

4.2 Valency-changing operations in Huasteca Nahuatl

4.3 Noun incorporation in Huasteca Nahuatl

5. Final remarks

The semantics of Nahuatl tla- constructions

2. The Nahuatl tla- constructions

3. The tla- formal status

4. Types of tla- predicate constructions

4.1 The Hale &amp

Keyser's theory of Argument Structure

4.2 Transitive verbal bases for tla‑ constructions

4.3 Unergative verbal bases

4.4 Unaccusative verbal bases

5. A note on the anti antipassivisation analysis of Nahuatl tla- constructions

6. Conclusions

Valency-changing operations in Yaqui resultatives

2. Yaqui language

3. Resultative constructions

4. Resultative constructions in Yaqui

4.1 Monovalent resultatives in Yaqui

4.2 Bivalent resultatives in Yaqui

Tlachichilco Tepehua: Semantics and function of verb valency change

2. Morphosyntax of verb valency changes

2.1 Core arguments

2.2 Adjuncts: The periphery

3. A frame-semantics interpretation of applicatives

3.1 Frame-external readings

3.2 Frame-internal readings

4. Syntactic function of verb valency change

5. Final comments and conclusion

A panorama of valency changing operations in Seri: A panorama of valency changing operations in Seri

2. Robust valency decreasing operations

2.1 Passive (short)

2.2 Unspecified subject

2.3 Antipassive (implicit argument type)

3. Robust valency increasing operations

3.1 Causative

3.2 Assistive

4. Less robust valency increasing operations

4.1 Experiencer subject

4.2 A few benefactive verbs.

4.3 A few more unusual verbs

5. Less robust valency decreasing operations

5.1 Sensory verbs without Experiencers

6. Two constructions using number predicates

6.1 Age construction (transitive)

6.2 Times construction (intransitive)

7. Conclusion

The antipassive marking in Mocovi: Forms and functions

2. Mocovi language and data

3. Antipassive constructions

3.1 Definition and functions

4. Main features of the active clause in Mocovi

4.1 The nominal phrases and independent pronouns coding

4.2 Verbal indexing

4.3 Word order

5. The Mocovi antipassive

5.1 The -(a)ɢan marker

5.2 The -(a)taɢan marker

5.3 Discussion

Arabic 'labile verbs' in form III: Lability or something else?

2. Definition and distribution of labile verbs

2.1 The state of research

2.2 A-lability vs. P-lability

2.3 Lability and syntactic transitivity

3. Arabic verb system and transitivity

3.1 Verbal patterns

3.2 Syntactic indefiniteness

3.3 Form III and non-standard transitivity

4. Lability in form III

4.1 sāwā

4.2 mātala

4.3 ṣālaħa

4.4 fāraqa

4.5 qāraba

4.6 ṭābaqa

4.7 wāzana

4.8 Intransitive structures with bayna: What is the functional motivation?

4.9 Variation in form III: Summary

5. Labile verbs of other forms

6. Lability of derived verbs: Some parallels in other languages

7. Conclusions

Valency-decreasing operations in a valency-increasing language?

2. Background on West Circassian

3. Valency increase

3.1 Applicatives

3.2 Causatives

3.3 Summary

4. Valency decrease?

4.1 Anticausatives

4.2 Agent suppression without detransitivization

4.3 Means of detransitivization

4.4 Antipassive-like constructions.

5. Conclusion

Language index

Subject index.

Notes:

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

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