22.221, Books: Historical Linguistics/Morphology: Lavidas

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Date: 23-Dec-2010
From: Chris Humphrey [chumphrey at c-s-p.org]
Subject: Transitivity Alternations in Diachrony: Changes in Argument
Structure and Voice Morphology: Lavidas
 

	
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From: Chris Humphrey [chumphrey at c-s-p.org]
Subject: Transitivity Alternations in Diachrony: Changes in Argument Structure and Voice Morphology: Lavidas

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Title: Transitivity Alternations in Diachrony: Changes in Argument
Structure and Voice Morphology 
Publication Year: 2010 
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
	   http://www.c-s-p.org
	
Author: Nikolaos Lavidas

Paperback: ISBN:  9781443817493 Pages: 325 Price: U.K. £ 44.99


Abstract:

?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
Linguistics. The study shows that (a) causativisations are the result of
reanalysis of intransitive verbs as transitive on the basis of the
linguistic cue of Case; (b) the changes in voice morphology do not depend
on the derivation and direction of new transitivity alternations. Finally,
the study demonstrates that the generalisation that guides the changes in
voice demands morphological differentiation of the anticausative from the
passive types. 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Morphology

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     Greek (ell)


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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