Title Transitivity alternations in diachrony : changes in argument structure and voice morphology / Nikolaos Lavidas.

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Summary	His book offers a new approach to the theory of change in argument structure and voice morphology. It investigates the diachrony of transitivity, and especially the changes in causative verbs and transitivity alternations, based on data mainly from the Greek and English diachrony (all historical data are transcribed and accompanied by glosses and translations into Modern English). Data from earlier periods provide new information on burning questions in both Historical and Theoretical Lingui ...
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Subject	Historical linguistics.
	Historical linguistics.
	English language -- Transitivity.
	English language -- Transitivity.
	Greek language -- Transitivity.
	Greek language.
	English language -- Morphology.
	English language -- Morphology.
	Greek language -- Morphology.
	Greek language -- Morphology.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Lavidas, Nikolaos. Transitivity alternations in diachrony. Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2010 9781443817493 (OCoLC)498134794
ISBN	9781443817493 (Cloth)
	144381749X (Cloth)