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.
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Denis Creissels is Professor Emeritus at the University of Lyon. Until his retirement in 2008 he taught general linguistics at the University of Grenoble (1971-1996) and the University of Lyon (1996-2008). His research focuses on linguistic diversity, the description of less-studied languages, and morphosyntactic typology, and he has carried out fieldwork on West African languages (Baule, Manding, Balanta, Soninke, Jóola), Southern Bantu languages (Tswana), and Daghestanian languages (Akhvakh). His many publications include the widely-used Syntaxe génerale. Une introduction typologique (Hermès, 2006).
Inhaltsangabe
* Acknowledgments * Abbreviations * 1: Introduction * 2: Participant roles and participant coding * 3: Syntactic transitivity * 4: The transitive construction * 5: Transitiveâintransitive alignment * 6: Impersonal and anti-impersonal constructions * 7: Transitive coding and valency * 8: Voice alternations * 9: Passivization and S-denucleativization * 10: Antipassivization * 11: Decausativization, reflexivization, reciprocalization, and middle voices * 12: Causativization * 13: Non-causative A/S-nucleativization * 14: Applicativization * 15: Flexivalency alternations * 16: The noncausalâcausal alternation, the psych alternation, and the undirectedâdirected alternation * 17: Noun incorporation, transitivity, and valency * 18: Conclusion * Appendix Language classification * References * Author Index * Language Index * Subject Index
