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The volume deals with valency phenomena in verbs and complex
deverbal lexical structures (nominalizations, adjectivizations and
compounds) in a variety of languages (English, Polish, Hungarian,
Norwegian, Greek, Hebrew, Bantu languages and the West African
language Ga). The introduction offers an overview of valency
related issues and up-to-date linguistic literature. The eleven
contributions address specific problems, such as the interaction of
valency with argument- and event-structure, properties of light
verbs, impersonal constructions, antipassives, analogies between
passivization and nominalization/adjectivization, effects of verbal
prefixation, and synthetic compounds. The proposed analyses are
couched in lexically and syntactically driven approaches.
This book examines various aspects of Celtic linguistics from a
general and more specific point of view. Amongst the topics
investigated is the system of Irish initial mutations from both a
linguistic universal and contrastive perspective. Other
contributions analyse and cast new light on deverbal adjectives and
assertive and declarative speech acts in Irish, communication and
language transmission, change and policy, Breton and Sorbian
grammars, as well as other issues of sociolinguistics in Irish,
Welsh and Breton.
This book contributes to the recent theoretical developments in the
area of mutual interactions of valency and aspect, as expressed in
different types of verb-related nominal structures (nominalizations
and synthetic compounds). A wide range of data from Slavic,
Hellenic, Germanic, Romance and Semitic languages provides an
empirical testing ground for competing theoretical explanations
couched in the lexicalist and construction-based frameworks.
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