Transitivity, Valency, and Voice
Series: Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 29 October 2024
- ISBN 9780198899570
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages848 pages
- Size 245x167x52 mm
- Weight 1394 g
- Language English 658
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Short description:
This book explores three central concepts in clausal structure: transivity, valency, and voice. Denis Creissels draws up a novel theoretical and terminological framework to study the considerable cross-linguistic variation observed in these phenomena and to compare their manifestations in the grammars of individual languages.
MoreLong description:
This book sets up a consistent theoretical and terminological framework for the study of the phenomena that are commonly subsumed under the terms transitivity, valency, and voice. These three concepts are at the heart of the most basic aspects of clausal structure in any language; however, there is considerable cross-linguistic variation in the constraints on how verbs combine with noun phrases that refer to participants in the event that they denote or to the circumstances of the event. In this book, Denis Creissels explores and accounts for the extent of this cross-linguistic variation, capturing its regularities and examining the historical phenomena that have resulted in the emergence of constructions and markers. The novel framework developed in the book allows similar phenomena to be identified across typologically diverse languages, and facilitates systematic comparison of the manifestations of these phenomena in the grammars of individual languages.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction
Participant roles and participant coding
Syntactic transitivity
The transitive construction
Transitive-intransitive alignment
Impersonal and anti-impersonal constructions
Transitive coding and valency
Voice alternations
Passivization and S-denucleativization
Antipassivization
Decausativization, reflexivization, reciprocalization, and middle voices
Causativization
Non-causative A/S-nucleativization
Applicativization
Flexivalency alternations
The noncausal-causal alternation, the psych alternation, and the undirected-directed alternation
Noun incorporation, transitivity, and valency
Conclusion
