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Title Transitivity : form, meaning, acquisition, and processing / edited by Patrick Brandt, Marco García García.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 308 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today ; v. 166
Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 166.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Grammatical transitivity vs. interpretive distinctnessPart III Transitivity and diathesis; The space between one and two; Event-structure and individuation in impersonal passives; Part IV Crosslinguistic and crosscategorical considerations; Lability and spontaneity; Transitivity of deverbal nominals and aspectual modifiers of the verbal stem (evidence from Russian); Individuation and semantic role interpretation in the adpositional domain; Language index; Subject index; The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.
Summary 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.
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Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- Transitivity.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Transitivity.
Dependency grammar.
Dependency grammar.
Semantics.
Semantics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Brandt, Patrick.
García García, Marco.
Other Form: Print version: Transitivity. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2010 9789027255495 (DLC) 2010022886 (OCoLC)643322232
ISBN 9789027287816 (electronic book)
9027287813 (electronic book)
1282897365
9781282897366
9789027255495
9027255490