Ergativity, Valency and Voice
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Gilles Authier, Katharina Haude
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Ergativity, Valency and Voice
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De Gruyter Mouton
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9783110227734
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Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]ISSN
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1
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CHF 159.80
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Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
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English
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396
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< >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.
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Gilles Authier
, Institut des Langues Orientales, Paris, France;
Katharina Haude
, University of Cologne, Germany.
List of contributors
7
Introduction
9
Ergativity and voice in Mayan languages: a functional-typological approach
23
Ergativity and the passive in three Mayan languages
59
A tale of two passives in Cavineña
119
The detransitive voice in Kryz
141
Laz middle voice
173
Argument demotion in Japhug Rgyalrong
207
The Katukina-Kanamari antipassive
235
Undergoer orientation in Movima
267
Case patterns and verb classes in Trumai
297
Ergativity in the Adyghe system of valency-changing derivations
331
The evolution of transitive verbs in Basque and emergence of dative-marked patients
363
Index of subjects
389
Index of languages
395
