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Contrastive Studies in Verbal Valency
Edited by Lars Hellan, Andrej L. Malchukov and Michela Cennamo
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 237] 2017
► pp. 1–24

Introduction
Issues in contrastive valency studies

Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Valency and valency alternation in linguistic theory and description
    • 2.1Derivational designs
    • 2.2Subsumption designs
    • 2.3Larger structures
  • 3.Typological/contrastive studies of valency
  • 4.Contributions to the volume
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 30 April 2017
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