Typology of Verbal Categories: Papers Presented to Vladimir Nedjalkov on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday

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The typological studies of this volume are oriented towards the areas of interests of the Russian typologist Vladimir P. Nedjalkov, to whom the volume is dedicated. They deal with the typology of verbal categories. The book is divided into three parts: 1. "Ergativity and transitivity", 2. "Voice, causative and valency", 3. "Tense and mood". In all three parts of the volume instances of grammaticalization are pointed out and investigated. The studies concern various languages, e.g. English, French, German, Russian, Hungarian, Dutch, Tariana (a North Arawak language from North West Amazonia), Dumi (a Tibeto-Burman language), and Lak (a Daghestanian language). Introduction I. ERGATIVITY AND TRANSITIVITY Causalité, Causativité, Transitivité On Two Parameters of Transitivity Transitivity Increasing Operations in Tariana How to Butter a Sandwich. On ‘spread’ in Dutch and Hungarian from a Typological Perspective Labile Konstruktionen Inverse Direction and Second Person in Dumi On Patient Demotion in Lak II. VOICE, CAUSATIVE AND VALENCY Voice Parameters Passive, Anticausative and Classification of Verbs: the Case of Vedic Zur Typologie der Passivkonstruktionen in den Jenissej-Sprachen Allocutivity and Voice in the Basque Verb From Inert to Actional Causative Towards a Typology of Grammatical Polysemy: Reflexive Markers as Markers of Reciprocity Verb Formation in Leko: Causatives, Reflexives and Reciprocals III. TENSE AND MOOD Verbal Categories, Meaning and Typology The Perfect in English and German L’expression de l’irréel: essai de typologie Sur le paradigme complet de l’impératif français IV. VERBAL CATEGORIES AND LANGUAGE UNIVERSALS Verb Serialization and Attractor Positions: Constructions and Their Potential Impact on Language Change and Language Contact Defining Converbs Translatability and Universals Revisited Die Verneinung als funktional-semantische Kategorie (unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Streckformen des Deutschen und Russischen) List of Contributors