Valency over Time: Diachronic Perspectives on Valency Patterns and Valency Orientation

Open Access Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2021

Valency over Time

Diachronic Perspectives on Valency Patterns and Valency Orientation

Edited by: Silvia Luraghi and Elisa Roma
Funded by: Università di Pavia

Volume 368 in the series Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110755657

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Valency patterns and valency orientation have been frequent topics of research under different perspectives, often poorly connected. Diachronic studies on these topics is even less systematic than synchronic ones. The papers in this book bring together two strands of research on valency, i.e. the description of valency patterns as worked out in the Leipzig Valency Classes Project (ValPaL), and the assessment of a language's basic valency and its possible orientation. Notably, the ValPaL does not provide diachronic information concerning the valency patterns investigated: one of the aims of the book is to supplement the available data with data from historical stages of languages, in order to make it profitably exploitable for diachronic research. In addition, new research on the diachrony of basic valency and valency alternations can deepen our understanding of mechanisms of language change and of the propensity of languages or language families to exploit different constructional patterns related to transitivity.

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Silvia Luraghi; Elisa Roma, both University of Pavia, Italy.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	I
Contents Open Access Download PDF	V
Valency and transitivity over time: An introduction Silvia Luraghi and Elisa Roma Open Access Download PDF	1
Transitivity, diachrony, and language contact Eitan Grossman Open Access Download PDF	13
Valency patterns and alternations in Gothic Chiara Zanchi and Matteo Tarsi Open Access Download PDF	31
Valency Patterns of Old Irish verbs: finite and non-finite syntax Elisa Roma Open Access Download PDF	89
Anticausativization and basic valency orientation in Latin Guglielmo Inglese Open Access Download PDF	133
Basic valency in diachrony: from Ancient to Modern Greek Silvia Luraghi and Dionysios Mertyris Open Access Download PDF	169
Basic causative verb patterns in Uralic: Retention and renewal in grammar and lexicon Riho Grünthal, Heini Arjava, Jyri Lehtinen and Johanna Nichols Open Access Download PDF	209
The many ways of transitivization in Totoli Sonja Riesberg, Kurt Malcher and Nikolaus P. Himmelmann Open Access Download PDF	235
Anticausatives and lability in Italian and French: a diachronic-synchronic comparative study Michela Cennamo Open Access Download PDF	265
Phonologically conditioned lability in Soninke (West-Mande) and its historical explanation Denis Creissels Open Access Download PDF	305
Index of Authors Open Access Download PDF	329
Index of Subjects Open Access Download PDF	335
Index of Languages Open Access Download PDF	339

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Scholars and Researchers interested in Language Typology, Historical Linguistics and General Linguistics
Pages
- Front matter: 5
- Main content: 341
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 1
- Tables: 314
Keywords: Valency; Transitivity; Voice; Language Change.

eBook

Published: October 25, 2021
ISBN: 9783110755657

Hardcover

Published: November 8, 2021
ISBN: 9783110755602

Paperback

Published: May 8, 2023
ISBN: 9783111277790