Ergativity, Valency and Voice

Ergativity, Valency and Voice
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages : 396
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ISBN-10 : 9783110227734
ISBN-13 : 3110227738
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Book Synopsis Ergativity, Valency and Voice by : Gilles Authier

Download or read book Ergativity, Valency and Voice written by Gilles Authier and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of articles concerned with the typology of valency and valence change in a large and diversified sample of languages that display ergative alignment in their grammar. The sample of languages represented in these descriptive contributions covers most of the geographical areas and linguistic families in which ergativity has been known to exist jointly with well-developed morphological voice, and some languages belonging to families in which ergativity or voice were not previously recognized or adequately described up to now.


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