Transitivity

Form, Meaning, Acquisition, and Processing

Edited by Patrick Brandt and Marco García García
University of Cologne / University of Freiburg
What happens when a canonically transitive form meets a canonically transitive meaning, and what happens when this doesn’t happen? How do dyadic forms relate to monadic ones, and what are the entailments of the operations that the grammar uses to relate one to the other? Collecting original expert work from acquisition, processing, typological and theoretical syntax-semantics research, this volume provides a state of the art as well as cutting edge discussion of central issues in the realm of Transitivity. These include the definition and role of "Natural Transitivity", the interpretation and repercussions of valency changing operations and differential case marking, and the interactions between (in)transitive Gestalts in different categories and at different levels of representation.
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 166]  2010.  vii, 308 pp.
Publishing status: Available
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ISBN 9789027255495 | EUR 99.00 | USD 149.00
 
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Subjects

Benjamins Subject classification

BIC Subject

CFK: Grammar, syntax

BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics
U.S. Library of Congress Control Number:  2010022886
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