Language index

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Trans-duction 1
5. Part I. Form and Meaning
6. Types of transitivity, intransitive objects, and untransitivity – and the logic of their structural designs 15
7. The interaction of transitivity features in the sinhala involitive 69
8. Transitivity in Chinese experiencer object verbs 95
9. Non-zero/non-zero alternations in differential object marking 119
10. Part II. Acquisition and processing
11. Children and transitivity 143
12. Grammatical transitivity vs. interpretive distinctness 161
13. Part III. Transitivity and diathesis
14. The space between one and two 191
15. Event-structure and individuation in impersonal passives 209
16. Part IV. Crosslinguistic and crosscategorical considerations
17. Lability and spontaneity 237
18. Transitivity of deverbal nominals and aspectual modifiers of the verbal stem (evidence from Russian) 257
19. Individuation and semantic role interpretation in the adpositional domain 279
20. Language index 301
21. Subject index 303