Authier / Haude Ergativity, Valency and Voice

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-3-11-022773-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 48, 396 Seiten

Reihe: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]

Zielgruppe

Linguists and Academic Departments of Linguistics, in particular those with a Typological Specialisation, Graduate and Post-Graduate Students in Linguistics

Autoren/Hrsg.

Authier, Gilles

Haude, Katharina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Textlinguistik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;List of contributors;7
2;Introduction;9
3;Ergativity and voice in Mayan languages: a functional-typological approach;23
4;Ergativity and the passive in three Mayan languages;59
5;A tale of two passives in Cavineña;119
6;The detransitive voice in Kryz;141
7;Laz middle voice;173
8;Argument demotion in Japhug Rgyalrong;207
9;The Katukina-Kanamari antipassive;235
10;Undergoer orientation in Movima;267
11;Case patterns and verb classes in Trumai;297
12;Ergativity in the Adyghe system of valency-changing derivations;331
13;The evolution of transitive verbs in Basque and emergence of dative-marked patients;363
14;Index of subjects;389
15;Index of languages;395

Über Autor(innen)

Gilles Authier, Institut des Langues Orientales, Paris, France; Katharina Haude, University of Cologne, Germany.