Case, Valency And Transitivity

Case, Valency and Transitivity......Page 2
Editorial page......Page 3
Title page......Page 4
LCC data......Page 5
Table of contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 8
1. Morphological case......Page 22
1. Syntactic vs. morphological case......Page 24
2. Case systems in a diachronic perspective......Page 44
3. Emergence of morphological cases in South Mande......Page 70
4. Issues of morphological ergativity in the Tsimshian languages......Page 86
5. Direction marking and case in Menominee......Page 112
2. Case marking and transitivity......Page 134
6. Bare and prepositional differentialcase marking......Page 136
7. Control infinitives and case in Germanic......Page 168
8. Experiencer coding in Nakh-Daghestanian......Page 200
9. ‘Argument sharing’ in Oriya serial verb constructions......Page 224
10. Two approaches to specificity......Page 246
11. Case markedness......Page 270
12. Incremental distinguishability of subject and object......Page 290
13. The woman showed the baby to her sister......Page 312
14. Case semantics and the agent–patient opposition......Page 330
15. Transitivity parameters and transitivity alternations......Page 350
16. Transitivity in Songhay......Page 380
3. Transitivity and valency change......Page 394
17. Syntactic valence, information structure, and passive constructions in Kaqchikel......Page 396
18. A very active passive......Page 414
19. Case marking, possession and syntactic ­hierarchies in Khakas causative constructions in comparison with other Turkic languages......Page 438
20. Transitivity increase markers interacting with verb semantics......Page 462
21. Extraversive transitivization in Yucatec Maya and the nature of the applicative......Page 486
Language index......Page 516
Subject index......Page 519
The series Studies in Language Companion Series......Page 525