Transitivity

Transitivity
Author: Patrick Brandt
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027255490

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."

Prototypical Transitivity

Prototypical Transitivity
Author: Åshild Næss
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2007-07-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027292213

This book presents a functional analysis of a notion which has gained considerable importance in cognitive and functional linguistics over the last couple of decades, namely 'prototypical transitivity'. It discusses what prototypical transitivity is, why it should exist, and how it should be defined, as well as how this definition can be employed in the analysis of a number of phenomena of language, such as case-marking, experiencer constructions, and so-called ambitransitives. Also discussed is how a prototype analysis relates to other approaches to transitivity, such as that based on markedness. The basic claim is that transitivity is iconic: a construction with two distinct, independent arguments is prototypically used to refer to an event with two distinct, independent participants. From this principle, a unified account of the properties typically associated with transitivity can be derived, and an explanation for why these properties tend to correlate across languages can be given.

Causatives and Transitivity

Causatives and Transitivity
Author: Bernard Comrie
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 413
Release: 1993-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027230269

This volume brings together 18 typological studies of causative and related constructions (transitivity, voice, other expressions of cause) by 19 scholars from North America, Western Europe, and Russia. The inspirations for the volume is the pioneering work on causative constructions by the Leningrad Typology Group; several of the contributors have close connections to the charter members of that group, others have appreciated this work from a distance. The volume as a whole is based on the concept of causative constructions as embracing both morphology and syntax, with an important semantic component as well. In addition to general studies concerning the morpho syntactic and semantic typology and the history of causative constructions and relations to other phenomena, the following individual languages are treated in detail: Russian, English, Dutch, Svan, Even, Korean, Yukaghir, Alutor, Aleut, Haruai, Dogon, Athabaskan languages. The volume will be of interest to typologists, to other linguists interested in causative constructions and transitivity relations, and to all who are interested in the linguistic expression of causal relations.

Transitive Nouns and Adjectives

Transitive Nouns and Adjectives
Author: John Jeffrey Lowe
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2017
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 019879357X

This book explores the wealth of evidence from early Indo-Aryan for the existence of transitive nouns and adjectives, a rare linguistic phenomenon. The data is set in the wider historical context, from Proto-Indo-European to Modern Indo-Aryan, and analysed from diachronic, typological, and theoretical perspectives.

Introduction to Systemic Functional Linguistics

Introduction to Systemic Functional Linguistics
Author: Suzanne Eggins
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780826457868

Introduction to systemic functional linguistics explores the social semiotic approach to language most closely associated with the work of Michael Halliday and his colleagues>

Transitivity, Valency, and Voice

Transitivity, Valency, and Voice
Author: Denis Creissels
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 849
Release: 2024-10-29
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0198899580

This book sets up a consistent theoretical and terminological framework for the study of the phenomena that are commonly subsumed under the terms transitivity, valency, and voice. These three concepts are at the heart of the most basic aspects of clausal structure in any language; however, there is considerable cross-linguistic variation in the constraints on how verbs combine with noun phrases that refer to participants in the event that they denote or to the circumstances of the event. In this book, Denis Creissels explores and accounts for the extent of this cross-linguistic variation, capturing its regularities and examining the historical phenomena that have resulted in the emergence of constructions and markers. The novel framework developed in the book allows similar phenomena to be identified across typologically diverse languages, and facilitates systematic comparison of the manifestations of these phenomena in the grammars of individual languages.

Language, Social Structure, and Culture

Language, Social Structure, and Culture
Author: Patricia Mayes
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2003
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781588113467

Comparing Japanese and American interaction, text argues that language use is instrumental in the construction of social structure and culture.

English Grammar

English Grammar
Author: Angela Downing
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 648
Release: 2006
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780415287869

Presenting a course on English grammar, this book includes many entries and examples of language in use. It is useful reading for non-native speakers of English.

Public Choice III

Public Choice III
Author: Dennis C. Mueller
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 796
Release: 2003-02-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521894753

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