Edited by Lars Hellan, Andrej L. Malchukov and Michela Cennamo
In recent years, issues of verbal valency, valency alternations and verb classes have seen a new upsurge of interest from a variety of perspectives. This book comprises articles investigating valency phenomena on a contrastive basis within Romance, Germanic and Slavic, and also in Basque and in the… read more
Edited by Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova and Lars Hellan
This collection of articles presents a variety of approaches to central phenomena in South Slavic syntax and semantics, with an informal introduction by the editors on South Slavic clause structure. Phenomena addressed (treated partly on a language specific basis, partly comparative) include: the… read more
This paper investigates constructions in Norwegian and German with an expletive pronoun in subject position, and for Norwegian also in object position. The discussion covers presentational, impersonal and extrapositional constructions in both languages, and in Norwegian also the ‘light… read more
We illustrate a format forvalencerepresentation calledthe Construction Labeling system (CL),earlier presented inHellan and Dakubu 2010, which can be used in annotation of single examples and in enumerations and collections of valency types. It is applicable across language families… read more
The paper discusses some possible interpretations of the notion ‘argument sharing’ in the analysis of Oriya serial verb constructions (SVCs). The paper in particular addresses the notion of ‘token-sharing’. We argue that the concept of token-sharing, although, due to its rigour, theoretically the… read more
