36.1270, Books: Transitivity, Valency, and Voice: Creissels (2025)

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Subject: 36.1270, Books: Transitivity, Valency, and Voice: Creissels (2025)

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Date: 15-Apr-2025
From: Rachel Havard [Rachel.HAVARD at oup.com]
Subject: Transitivity, Valency, and Voice: Creissels (2025)


Title: Transitivity, Valency, and Voice
Series Title: Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Oxford University Press
           http://www.oup.com/us
Book URL:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/transitivity-valency-and-voice-9780198899570?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics

Author(s): Denis Creissels

Hardcover (9780198899570)

Abstract:

This book sets up a consistent theoretical and terminological
framework for the study of the phenomena that are commonly subsumed
under the terms transitivity, valency, and voice. These three concepts
are at the heart of the most basic aspects of clausal structure in any
language; however, there is considerable cross-linguistic variation in
the constraints on how verbs combine with noun phrases that refer to
participants in the event that they denote or to the circumstances of
the event. In this book, Denis Creissels explores and accounts for the
extent of this cross-linguistic variation, capturing its regularities
and examining the historical phenomena that have resulted in the
emergence of constructions and markers. The novel framework developed
in the book allows similar phenomena to be identified across
typologically diverse languages, and facilitates systematic comparison
of the manifestations of these phenomena in the grammars of individual
languages.

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Typology




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