Valency over Time : Diachronic Perspectives on Valency Patterns and Valency Orientation / ed. by Silvia Luraghi, Elisa Roma.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Arjava, Heini, Contributor.

Cennamo, Michela, Contributor.

Creissels, Denis, Contributor.

Grossman, Eitan, Contributor.

Grünthal, Riho, Contributor.

Himmelmann, Nikolaus P., Contributor.

Inglese, Guglielmo, Contributor.

Lehtinen, Jyri, Contributor.

Luraghi, Silvia, Contributor.

Luraghi, Silvia, Editor.

Malcher, Kurt, Contributor.

Mertyris, Dionysios, Contributor.

Nichols, Johanna, Contributor.

Riesberg, Sonja, Contributor.

Roma, Elisa, Contributor.

Roma, Elisa, Editor.

Tarsi, Matteo, Contributor.

Zanchi, Chiara, Contributor.

Università di Pavia, Funder.

Series:

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 1861-4302 ; 368

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (V, 341 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Valency patterns and valency orientation have been frequent topics of research under different perspectives, often poorly connected. Diachronic studies on these topics is even less systematic than synchronic ones. The papers in this book bring together two strands of research on valency, i.e. the description of valency patterns as worked out in the Leipzig Valency Classes Project (ValPaL), and the assessment of a language's basic valency and its possible orientation. Notably, the ValPaL does not provide diachronic information concerning the valency patterns investigated: one of the aims of the book is to supplement the available data with data from historical stages of languages, in order to make it profitably exploitable for diachronic research. In addition, new research on the diachrony of basic valency and valency alternations can deepen our understanding of mechanisms of language change and of the propensity of languages or language families to exploit different constructional patterns related to transitivity.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Valency and transitivity over time: An introduction

Transitivity, diachrony, and language contact

Valency patterns and alternations in Gothic

Valency Patterns of Old Irish verbs: finite and non-finite syntax

Anticausativization and basic valency orientation in Latin

Basic valency in diachrony: from Ancient to Modern Greek

Basic causative verb patterns in Uralic: Retention and renewal in grammar and lexicon

The many ways of transitivization in Totoli

Anticausatives and lability in Italian and French: a diachronic-synchronic comparative study

Phonologically conditioned lability in Soninke (West-Mande) and its historical explanation

Index of Authors

Index of Subjects

Index of Languages

Notes:

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ISBN:

9783110755657

3110755653

OCLC:

1280944592