Changing Valency
Subtitle: Case Studies in Transitivity
Contributors: R. M. W. Dixon (Editor); Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 13, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 429
ISBN-13: 9780521660396
Subjects: Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure; Verb; Language Arts & Disciplines; Comparative Grammar; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Typology (Linguistics); Language; Transitivity; Grammar; Linguistics; Grammar, Comparative and general--Verb; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics; Voice; Grammar, Comparative and gener; Grammar, Comparative and general
First sentence: This volume consists of a number of detailed case studies of transitivity across a selection of languages - from North, Central and South America, New Guinea, Australia, the China/Myanmar (Burma) border, North-east Africa and the Caucasus.