Ergativity, Valency and Voice
1st Edition
Published on 18. May 2012
Book
Hardback
VIII, 387 pages
978-3-11-022772-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"In conclusion, the book reviewed is essential reading for everyone interestedin ergativity, voice alternations and valency-changing mechanisms. This booktargets a very large audience: it is of interest not only to researchersworking on ergativity, but also to undergraduates, who can learn whatergativity is, how it can be related to other phenomena found in differentlanguages, and how one can work with understudied languages that require notonly the interpretation of raw linguistic material, but also an accuratedescription of it."Adina Dragomirescu in: Linguist List 24.609More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Germany
Publishing group
de Gruyter Mouton
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
61 s/w Tabellen, 5 Abbildungen
5 ill., 61 tbl.
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
742 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-11-022772-7 (9783110227727)
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Gilles Authier | Katharina Haude
Ergativity, Valency and Voice
E-Book
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De Gruyter Mouton
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Persons
Gilles Authier, Institut des Langues Orientales, Paris, France; Katharina Haude, University of Cologne, Germany.