Changing Valency

Changing Valency
Author: Robert M. W. Dixon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2000-02-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0521660394

Distinguished scholars examine the phenomena of passives and causatives in languages from around the world.

Verb Valency Changes

Verb Valency Changes
Author: Albert Álvarez González
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2017-09-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027265267

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.

Valency over Time

Valency over Time
Author: Silvia Luraghi
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2021-10-25
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110755718

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.

Case, Valency and Transitivity

Case, Valency and Transitivity
Author: L. I. Kulikov
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 526
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027230870

The three concepts of case, valency and transitivity belong to the most discussed topics of modern linguistics. On the one hand, they are crucially connected with morphological aspects of the clause, including case marking, person agreement and voice. On the other hand, they are related to several semantic issues such as the meaning of case, semantico-syntactic verbal classes, and the semantic correlates of transitivity. The volume unifies papers written within different theoretical frameworks and representing variegated approaches (Optimality Theory, Government and Binding, various versions of the Functional approach, Cross-linguistic and Typological analyses), containing both numerous new findings in individual languages and valuable observations and generalizations related to case, valency and transitivity.

Transitivity and Valency Alternations

Transitivity and Valency Alternations
Author: Taro Kageyama
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 471
Release: 2016-07-25
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110475308

This collection of papers is the first book ever published in English that presents detailed analyses of valency and transitivity alternations in Japanese from multifaceted standpoints: morphology, semantics, syntax, dialects, history, acquisition, and language typology.

Valency and Molecular Structure

Valency and Molecular Structure
Author: E. Cartmell
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2013-10-22
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1483140601

Valency and Molecular Structure, Fourth Edition provides a comprehensive historical background and experimental foundations of theories and methods relating to valency and molecular structures. In this edition, the chapter on Bohr theory has been removed while some sections, such as structures of crystalline solids, have been expanded. Details of structures have also been revised and extended using the best available values for bond lengths and bond angles. Recent developments are mostly noted in the chapter on complex compounds, while a new chapter has been added to serve as an introduction to the spectroscopy of complex compounds. Other topics include the experimental foundation of the quantum theory; molecular-orbital method; ionic, hydrogen, and metallic bonds; structures of some simple inorganic compounds; and electronic spectra of transition-metal complexes. This publication is a useful reference for undergraduate students majoring in chemistry and other affiliated science subjects.

Valence Changes in Zapotec

Valence Changes in Zapotec
Author: Natalie Operstein
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Linguistic change
ISBN: 9789027206916

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Contrastive Studies in Verbal Valency

Contrastive Studies in Verbal Valency
Author: Lars Hellan
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 486
Release: 2017-04-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027266093

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.

Ergativity, Valency and Voice

Ergativity, Valency and Voice
Author: Gilles Authier
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2012-05-29
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110227738

This volume is a collection of articles concerned with the typology of valency and valence change in a large and diversified sample of languages that display ergative alignment in their grammar. The sample of languages represented in these descriptive contributions covers most of the geographical areas and linguistic families in which ergativity has been known to exist jointly with well-developed morphological voice, and some languages belonging to families in which ergativity or voice were not previously recognized or adequately described up to now.

A Grammar of Neverver

A Grammar of Neverver
Author: Julie Barbour
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 502
Release: 2012-10-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 311028961X

Neverver is an Oceanic language spoken by just over 500 people on the high island of Malekula in Vanuatu. Drawing on an extensive corpus of field recordings collected between 2004 and 2008, the analysis reveals a very interesting phonological system with six prenasalized segments, rich systems of possession, tense/aspect/mood marking, valence change, and verb serialization. The grammar is of interest to specialists in Oceanic and Austronesian linguistics, as well as to general linguists, especially those interested in linguistic typology.