Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Preface IX
4. Introduction XI
5. Section 1: Object marking in cross-linguistic perspective
6. What is an object in a crosslinguistic perspective ? 1
7. Nominal and/ or verbal marking of central actants 17
8. (In)transitivity and object marking: some current issues 49
9. Section 2: Transitivity and objects in Romance languages
10. The object clitic pronoun in Italian: a functional interpretation 105
11. Prepositional objects in Neapolitan 117
12. From subject to object and from object to subject: (de)personalization, floating and reanalysis in presentative verbs 153
13. Changes of valence and their effect on objects 187
14. Transitivity and Grammaticalization of Object. The diachronic struggle of direct and indirect object in Spanish 217
15. Non-diachrony of ditransitivity in Spanish 261
16. Argument structure of perception verbs and actance variation of the Spanish direct object 299
17. Subject Index 323