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Transitivity and valency: from theory to acquisition

An overview

 | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
 | University of Strasbourg
Published online: 8 December 2017
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Article outline
  • Introduction
  • 1.Voice
  • 2.Valency and argument structure
  • 3.Transitivity alternations
    • 3.1Projectionist models
    • 3.2Some ‘constructional’ accounts
  • 4.Transitivity and acquisition
  • 5.Frequency-based vs Universal Grammar-based language acquisition
  • 6.The papers in this collection
  • 7.Some final points
  • Notes
  • References
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