Case, valency and transitivity (J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2006)
"The present selection of papers ... originated from a conference on the similar topic held at the University of Nijmegen in June 2003"--Introduction. - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Case, Valency and Transitivity; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; 1. Morphological case; 2. Case marking and transitivity; 3. Transitivity and valency change; Language index; Subject index; The series Studies in Language Companion Series
The three concepts of case, valency and transitivity belong to the most discussed topics of modern linguistics. On the one hand, they are crucially connected with morphological aspects of the clause, including case marking, person agreement and voice. On the other hand, they are related to several semantic issues such as the meaning of case, semantico-syntactic verbal classes, and the semantic correlates of transitivity. The volume unifies papers written within different theoretical frameworks and representing variegated approaches (Optimality Theory, Government and Binding, various versions o