Ergativity, Valency and Voice

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2012

Ergativity, Valency and Voice

Edited by: Gilles Authier and Katharina Haude

Volume 48 in the series Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110227734

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About this book

This volume is a collection of articles concerned with the typology of valency and valence change in a large and diversified sample of languages that display ergative alignment in their grammar. The sample of languages represented in these descriptive contributions covers most of the geographical areas and linguistic families in which ergativity has been known to exist jointly with well-developed morphological voice, and some languages belonging to families in which ergativity or voice were not previously recognized or adequately described up to now.

Author / Editor information

Gilles Authier, Institut des Langues Orientales, Paris, France; Katharina Haude, University of Cologne, Germany.

Reviews

"In conclusion, the book reviewed is essential reading for everyone interested
in ergativity, voice alternations and valency-changing mechanisms. This book
targets a very large audience: it is of interest not only to researchers
working on ergativity, but also to undergraduates, who can learn what
ergativity is, how it can be related to other phenomena found in different
languages, and how one can work with understudied languages that require not
only the interpretation of raw linguistic material, but also an accurate
description of it."
Adina Dragomirescu in: Linguist List 24.609

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	i
Table of contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
List of contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Introduction Gilles Authier and Katharina Haude Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Ergativity and voice in Mayan languages: a functional-typological approach Colette Grinevald and Marc Peake Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Ergativity and the passive in three Mayan languages Valentina Vapnarsky, Cédric Becquey and Aurore Monod Becquelin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
A tale of two passives in Cavineña Antoine Guillaume Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
The detransitive voice in Kryz Gilles Authier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Laz middle voice René Lacroix Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
Argument demotion in Japhug Rgyalrong Guillaume Jacques Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
The Katukina-Kanamari antipassive Francesc Queixalós Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Undergoer orientation in Movima Katharina Haude Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
Case patterns and verb classes in Trumai Aurore Monod Becquelin and Cédric Becquey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Ergativity in the Adyghe system of valencychanging derivations Alexander Letuchiy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
The evolution of transitive verbs in Basque and the emergence of dative-marked patients Céline Mounole Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
Index of subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	381
Index of languages Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	387

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Linguists and Academic Departments of Linguistics, in particular those with a Typological Specialisation, Graduate and Post-Graduate Students in Linguistics
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 387
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 5
- Tables: 61
Keywords: Language Typology; Valency; Ergativity

eBook

Published: May 29, 2012
ISBN: 9783110227734

Hardcover

Published: May 18, 2012
ISBN: 9783110227727