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Changing Valency by R M W Dixon

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Summary

This book, originally published in 2000, examines 'valency-changing mechanisms' (phenomena including passives and causatives) in some of the most interesting languages in the world. The distinguished team of authors has drawn on original fieldwork in five continents in this study, which will provide valuable insights both for formal theoreticians and for linguistic typologists.

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Changing Valency by R M W Dixon

This book provides a general perspective on valency-changing mechanisms - passives, antipassives, causatives, applicatives - in the languages of the world. It contains a comprehensive typology of causatives by R. M. W. Dixon, and detailed descriptions of valency-changing mechanisms in ten individual languages by leading scholars, based on original fieldwork. The sample languages span five continents and every kind of structural profile. Each contributor draws out the theoretical status and implications of valency-changing derivations in their language of study, and the relevant parameters are drawn together, and typological possibilities delineated, in the editors' introduction. The volume, originally published in 2000, will interest typologists, those working in the fields of morphosyntactic variation and lexical semantics, and exponents of formal theories engaging with the range of linguistic diversity found in natural language.

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Review of the hardback: 'This book is a grammatical sampler, and as such a joy in itself to typologistsTheory falls away, and the languages speak through their interpreters.' Modern Language Review
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ISBN 13 9780521660396
ISBN 10 0521660394
Title Changing Valency
Author R M W Dixon
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Year published 2000-02-10
Number of pages 432
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.