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Ergativity, Valency and Voice / ed. by Gilles Authier, Katharina Haude. - 1 online resource (387 p.) - Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] , 48 0933-761X ; .

Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Ergativity and voice in Mayan languages: a functional-typological approach -- Ergativity and the passive in three Mayan languages -- A tale of two passives in Cavineña -- The detransitive voice in Kryz -- Laz middle voice -- Argument demotion in Japhug Rgyalrong -- The Katukina-Kanamari antipassive -- Undergoer orientation in Movima -- Case patterns and verb classes in Trumai -- Ergativity in the Adyghe system of valencychanging derivations -- The evolution of transitive verbs in Basque and the emergence of dative-marked patients -- Index of subjects -- Index of languages

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This volume is a collection of articles concerned with the typology of valency and valence change in a large and diversified sample of languages that display ergative alignment in their grammar. The sample of languages represented in these descriptive contributions covers most of the geographical areas and linguistic families in which ergativity has been known to exist jointly with well-developed morphological voice, and some languages belonging to families in which ergativity or voice were not previously recognized or adequately described up to now.




Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

ISBN: 9783110227727 9783110227734

Standard No.: 10.1515/9783110227734 doi

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Generative grammar.
Grammar, Comparative and general--Ergative constructions.
Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general--Voice.
Ergativität.
Sprachtypologie.
Valenz.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.

Subjects--Index Terms: Ergativity. Language Typology. Valency.

LC Class. No.: P291.5 / .E74 2012eb

Dewey Class. No.: 415