Valency Classes in the World’s Languages: Volume 1 Introducing the Framework, and Case Studies from Africa and Eurasia

Contents\nAbbreviations\nAcknowledgments\nList of authors\nPart I: The Leipzig Valency Classes Project: Introducing the Framework\n	1 Introduction\n	2 Leipzig Questionnaire on valency classes\n	3 Comparing verbal valency across languages\n	4 Valency classes and alternations: parameters of variation\n	5 Transitivity prominence\n	5a Assessing transitivity prominence from a statistical perspective: A commentary on Martin Haspelmath’s “Transitivity prominence”\n	6 Statistical observations on implicational (verb) hierarchies\nPart II: Case Studies\n	Africa\n		7 Valency in Nllng\n		8 Valency properties of Mandinka verbs\n		9 Emai valency classes and their alternations\n		10 Valency classes in Yorùbá\n		11 Valency properties of verbs in Modern Standard Arabic\n	Eurasia\n		12 Icelandic valency classes: oblique subjects, oblique ambitransitives and the actional passive\n		13 Valency patterns in Italian\n		14 Valency classes in Eastern Armenian\n		15 Valency and valency classes in Bezhta\n		16 Valency classes in Even (North Tungusic) in a comparative Tungusic perspective\n		17 Valency properties of the Ket verb clause\n		18 Flexible valency in Chintang\n		19 Valency classes in Mandarin\n		20 Valency classes in Japanese\n		21 Valency classes in Ainu\nLanguage index\nSubject index