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Case Studies from Austronesia, the Pacific, the Americas, and Theoretical Outlook (Hardcover)
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Case Studies from Austronesia, the Pacific, the Americas, and Theoretical Outlook (Hardcover)
Series: Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics [CHL]
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Earlier empirical studies on valency have looked at the phenomenon
either in individual languages or a small range of languages, or
have concerned themselves with only small subparts of valency (e.g.
transitivity, ditransitive constructions), leaving a lacuna that
the present volume aims to fill by considering a wide range of
valency phenomena across 30 languages from different parts of the
world. The individual-language studies, each written by a
specialist or group of specialists on that language and covering
both valency patterns and valency alternations, are based on a
questionnaire (reproduced in the volume) and an on-line freely
accessible database, thus guaranteeing comparability of
cross-linguistic results. In addition, introductory chapters
provide the background to the project and discuss its main
characteristics and selected results, while a series of featured
articles by leading scholars who helped shape the field provide an
outside perspective on the volume's approach. The volume is
essential reading for anyone interested in valency and argument
structure, irrespective of theoretical persuasion, and will serve
as a model for future descriptive studies of valency in individual
languages.
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