Transitivity

Author : Ann M. Cooreman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3110113074

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Transitivity and Discourse Continuity in Chamorro Narratives by Ann M. Cooreman Pdf

The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.

Author : Åshild Næss
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027229848

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Prototypical Transitivity by Åshild Næss Pdf

This book presents a functional analysis of a notion which has gained considerable importance in cognitive and functional linguistics over the last couple of decades, namely 'prototypical transitivity'. It discusses what prototypical transitivity is, why it should exist, and how it should be defined, as well as how this definition can be employed in the analysis of a number of phenomena of language, such as case-marking, experiencer constructions, and so-called ambitransitives. Also discussed is how a prototype analysis relates to other approaches to transitivity, such as that based on markedness. The basic claim is that transitivity is iconic: a construction with two distinct, independent arguments is prototypically used to refer to an event with two distinct, independent participants. From this principle, a unified account of the properties typically associated with transitivity can be derived, and an explanation for why these properties tend to correlate across languages can be given.

Author : Werner Abraham,L. I. Kulikov
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027230539

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Tense-aspect, Transitivity and Causativity by Werner Abraham,L. I. Kulikov Pdf

This collection presents typological work on tense, aspect, and epistemic modality in a variety of languages and against the background of different schools of thinking, among which the St. Petersburg Typological School developed and so masterfully implemented by the Petersburg linguist, Vladimir Petrovich Nedjalkov. The volume honors this reputed scholar for his life work. It is in mainly this spirit (and the EUROTYPE spirit) that the following scholars have contributed to the volume: T.Tsunoda on Warrungu (Australian indigeneous language), L. Kulikov on Vedic, K. Kiryu on Japanese, Korean and Newari, N. Sumbatova on Svan (from the Kartvelian group), T.Bulygina & A. Shmelev on Russian, W. Boeder on Georgian, R. Thieroff on aorist and imperfect in European languages, Y. Poupynin on Russian, L. Johanson on Kipchak Turkic, I. Dolinina on Russian, N. Kozintseva on Old and Modern Eastern Armenian, Ch. Lee on Korean, W. Abraham on split ergative languages and German, G. Silnitsky on Russian, V. Plungian on Russian, E. Rakhilina on Russian, and K. Ebert on Kalmyk.

Author : Patrick Brandt,Marco García García
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027287816

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Transitivity by Patrick Brandt,Marco García García Pdf

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 repercussions of valency changing operations and differential case marking, and the interactions between (in)transitive Gestalts in different categories and at different levels of representation.

Author : María Calzada Pérez
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3039111906

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Transitivity in Translating by María Calzada Pérez Pdf

This book proposes an overall framework of communication (including translation) that follows CDA (Critical Discourse Analysis)/CL (Critical Linguistics) principles; it devises an analytic tool for the study of transitivity in translation along Hallidayian-functionalist lines; and it incorporates a contrastive corpus of 52 speeches made before the European Parliament in English and Spanish on 9th March 1993 together with their corresponding translations. Both sentence and textual levels become units of analysis. Also, quantitative and qualitative methods are applied. The author analyses the various types of transitivity shifts at sentence level. She also shows that these shifts have contextual effects. Another focus of this study is to present how certain transitivity shifts group together.

Author : Paul J. Hopper,Sandra A. Thompson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004368903

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Studies in Transitivity by Paul J. Hopper,Sandra A. Thompson Pdf

Author : Leonid Kulikov,Andrej Malchukov,Peter de Swart
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027293114

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Case, Valency and Transitivity by Leonid Kulikov,Andrej Malchukov,Peter de Swart Pdf

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 of the Functional approach, Cross-linguistic and Typological analyses), containing both numerous new findings in individual languages and valuable observations and generalizations related to case, valency and transitivity.

Author : Nikolaos Lavidas
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443818100

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Transitivity Alternations in Diachrony by Nikolaos Lavidas Pdf

Τhis 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.

Author : Taro Kageyama,Wesley M. Jacobsen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110477153

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Transitivity and Valency Alternations by Taro Kageyama,Wesley M. Jacobsen Pdf

This collection of papers is the first book ever published in English that presents detailed analyses of valency and transitivity alternations in Japanese from multifaceted standpoints: morphology, semantics, syntax, dialects, history, acquisition, and language typology.

Author : Gustavo Martín Asensio
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567396679

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Transitivity-Based Foregrounding in the Acts of the Apostles by Gustavo Martín Asensio Pdf

This study of the language of Acts is based on M. A. K. Halliday's functional grammar, which offers a theory based on linguistic choices and the effects they have on readers or hearers. Interacting with selected interpretations from, among others, C.K. Barrett, Ben C. Witherington, Jerome Neyrey, Jacob Jervell and John Lentz, Martín-Asensio argues that transitivity ('who does what to whom') emerges as a key factor in the foregrounding scheme of Acts, and this analysis offers a linguistically based perspective on Luke's overall concern to underline the supremacy of the divine will on the stage of human affairs.

Author : Peter Bekins
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004370166

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Transitivity and Object Marking in Biblical Hebrew by Peter Bekins Pdf

Based on author's dissertation (doctoral--Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, 2012).

Author : Maarten Lemmens
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027236715

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Lexical Perspectives on Transitivity and Ergativity by Maarten Lemmens Pdf

Fusing insights from cognitive grammar, systemic-functional grammar and Government & Binding, the present work elaborates and refines Davidse's view that the English grammar of lexical causatives is governed by the transitive and ergative paradigms, two distinct models of causation (Davidse 1991, 1992). However, on the basis of extensive synchronic and diachronic data on verbs of killing (e.g. kill, execute, choke or drown), it is shown that 'transitivity' and 'ergativity' are not absolute but prototypical characteristics of verbs which may be overruled by the semantics of the construal in which they occur. The variable transitive or ergative character of the verbs reveals the complex interaction between the semantics of the construction and that of the verb. The diachronic analyses further illustrate how in the course of time verbs may change their paradigmatic properties, either temporarily (e.g. the ergativization of strangle, throttle and smother) or permanently (e.g. the 'causativization' of starve or the partial transitivization of abort). The analyses show that these changes are semantically well-motivated and further illustrate the cognitive reality of the two causative models. The work explores the experiential basis of the prototypical paradigmatic behaviour of verbs (e.g. the ergative predilection of the SUFFOCATE verbs). In addition, it attempts to shed more light on the semantics and restrictions of certain constructions, such as the medio-passive, the derivation of adjectives in –able, or the derivation of agentive nominals in –er.

Author : Patrick Brandt,Marco Garcia García
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027255495

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Transitivity by Patrick Brandt,Marco Garcia García Pdf

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 repercussions of valency changing operations and differential case marking, and the interactions between (in)transitive Gestalts in different categories and at different levels of representation."

Author : John J. Lowe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780198793571

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Transitive Nouns and Adjectives by John J. Lowe Pdf

This book explores the wealth of evidence from early Indo-Aryan for the existence of transitive nouns and adjectives, a rare linguistic phenomenon which, according to some categorizations of word classes, should not occur. John Lowe shows that most transitive nouns and adjectives attested in early Indo-Aryan cannot be analysed as a type of non-finite verb category, but must be acknowledged as a distinct constructional type. The volume provides a detailed introduction to transitivity (verbal and adpositional), the categories of agent and action noun, and to early Indo-Aryan. Four periods of early Indo-Aryan are selected for study: Rigvedic Sanskrit, the earliest Indo-Aryan; Vedic Prose, a slightly later form of Sanskrit; Epic Sanskrit, a form of Sanskrit close to the standardized 'Classical' Sanskrit; and Pali, the early Middle Indo-Aryan language of the Buddhist scriptures. John Lowe shows that while each linguistic stage is different, there are shared features of transitive nouns and adjectives which apply throughout the history of early Indo-Aryan. The data is set in the wider historical context, from Proto-Indo-European to Modern Indo-Aryan, and a formal linguistic analysis of transitive nouns and adjectives is provided in the framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar.

Author : Åshild Næss
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007-07-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027292216

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Prototypical Transitivity by Åshild Næss Pdf

This book presents a functional analysis of a notion which has gained considerable importance in cognitive and functional linguistics over the last couple of decades, namely 'prototypical transitivity'. It discusses what prototypical transitivity is, why it should exist, and how it should be defined, as well as how this definition can be employed in the analysis of a number of phenomena of language, such as case-marking, experiencer constructions, and so-called ambitransitives. Also discussed is how a prototype analysis relates to other approaches to transitivity, such as that based on markedness. The basic claim is that transitivity is iconic: a construction with two distinct, independent arguments is prototypically used to refer to an event with two distinct, independent participants. From this principle, a unified account of the properties typically associated with transitivity can be derived, and an explanation for why these properties tend to correlate across languages can be given.