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Transitivity: Form, Meaning, Acquisition, and Processing

By Patrick Brandt , Marco García García

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year
2010
ISBN
9027255490, 9789027255495
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2004724 bytes)
Series
Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 166
Pages
320\321
Scanned
yes
Time added
2016-11-21 16:53:06

Description

What happens when a canonically transitive form meets a canonically transitive meaning, and what happens when this doesn’t happen? How do dyadic forms relate to monadic ones, and what are the entailments of the operations that the grammar uses to relate one to the other? Collecting original expert work from acquisition, processing, typological and theoretical syntax-semantics research, this volume provides a state of the art as well as cutting edge discussion of central issues in the realm of Transitivity. These include the definition and role of "Natural Transitivity", the interpretation and repercussions of valency changing operations and differential case marking, and the interactions between (in)transitive Gestalts in different categories and at different levels of representation.

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