Transitivity: Form, Meaning, Acquisition, and Processing: 166 (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027255490 ISBN 13: 9789027255495

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2010

Synopsis

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027255490
• ISBN 13: 9789027255495
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Brandt Patrick, García García Marco