Transitivity : form, meaning, acquisition, and processing /
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 exp...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2010.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9789027287816 9027287813 1282897365 9781282897366 9786612897368 6612897368 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Transitivity; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Trans-duction; 1. Transitive ideals; 2. Transience and perfecticism; References; Part I Form and meaning; Types of transitivity, intransitive objects, and untransitivity
- and the logic of their structural designs; The interaction of transitivity features in the Sinhala involitive; Transitivity in Chinese experiencer object verbs; Non-zero/non-zero alternations in differential object marking; Part II Acquisition and processing; Children and transitivity.
- Grammatical transitivity vs. interpretive distinctnessPart III Transitivity and diathesis; The space between one and two; Event-structure and individuation in impersonal passives; Part IV Crosslinguistic and crosscategorical considerations; Lability and spontaneity; Transitivity of deverbal nominals and aspectual modifiers of the verbal stem (evidence from Russian); Individuation and semantic role interpretation in the adpositional domain; Language index; Subject index; The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.