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Transitivity
Form, Meaning, Acquisition, and Processing
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
Published online on 2 November 2010
Published online on 2 November 2010
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Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Trans-ductionPatrick Brandt and Marco García García | pp. 1–12
- Part I. Form and Meaning
- Types of transitivity, intransitive objects, and untransitivity – and the logic of their structural designs: Ways to keep apart derivation in syntax and in the lexiconWerner Abraham | pp. 15–68
- The interaction of transitivity features in the sinhala involitiveJohn Beavers and Cala Zubair | pp. 69–94
- Transitivity in Chinese experiencer object verbsElisabeth Verhoeven | pp. 95–118
- Non-zero/non-zero alternations in differential object markingStefan Keine and Gereon Müller | pp. 119–140
- Part II. Acquisition and processing
- Children and transitivity: The subject-object asymmetry in a natural settingLotte Hogeweg and Helen de Hoop | pp. 143–160
- Grammatical transitivity vs. interpretive distinctness: The case for a separation of two levels of representation that are often conflatedMatthias Schlesewsky, Kamal Kumar Choudhary and Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky | pp. 161–188
- Part III. Transitivity and diathesis
- The space between one and two: Transitives, intransitives and the middle voiceKees de Schepper | pp. 191–208
- Event-structure and individuation in impersonal passivesBeatrice Primus | pp. 209–234
- Part IV. Crosslinguistic and crosscategorical considerations
- Lability and spontaneityAlexander Letuchiy | pp. 237–256
- Transitivity of deverbal nominals and aspectual modifiers of the verbal stem (evidence from Russian)Anna Pazelskaya | pp. 257–278
- Individuation and semantic role interpretation in the adpositional domainSander Lestrade and Peter de Swart | pp. 279–300
- Language index | pp. 301–302
- Subject index | pp. 303–308
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