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External Arguments in Transitivity Alternations - A Layering Approach (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,013
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External Arguments in Transitivity Alternations - A Layering Approach (Hardcover): Artemis Alexiadou, Elena Anagnostopoulou,...

External Arguments in Transitivity Alternations - A Layering Approach (Hardcover)

Artemis Alexiadou, Elena Anagnostopoulou, Florian Schafer

Series: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, 55

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This book is an exploration of the syntax of external arguments in transitivity alternations from a cross-linguistic perspective. It focuses particularly on the causative/anticausative alternation, which the authors take to be a Voice alternation, and the formation of adjectival participles. The authors use data principally from English, German, and Greek to demonstrate that the presence of anticausative morphology does not have any truth-conditional effects, but that marked anticausatives involve more structure than their unmarked counterparts. This morphology is therefore argued to be associated with a semantically inert Voice head that the authors call 'expletive Voice'. The authors also propose that passive formation is not identical across languages, and that the distinction between target vs. result state participles is crucial in understanding the contribution of Voice in adjectival passives. The book provides the tools required to investigate the morphosyntactic structure of verbs and participles, and to identify the properties of verbal alternations across languages. It will be of interest to theoretical linguists from graduate level upwards, particularly those specializing in morphosyntax and typology.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, 55
Release date: 2015
Authors: Artemis Alexiadou (Professor and Chair of the Institute of English Linguistics) • Elena Anagnostopoulou (Professor of Linguistics) • Florian Schafer (Researcher in the Department of Linguistics)
Dimensions: 240 x 162 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-957194-9
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Historical & comparative linguistics > General
Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > Pragmatics
Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure > General
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LSN: 0-19-957194-5
Barcode: 9780199571949

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