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Lability and spontaneity

Abstract

The present paper focuses on labile verbs – lexemes which can behave transitively or intransitively without a formal change. Haspelmath (1993a) and Comrie (2006) claim that the semantic spontaneity is the crucial factor for the distribution of inchoative/causative oppositions, based on data of the causative and the anticausative formal type. In contrast, my analysis of labile verbs across languages shows that for lability, another factor is crucial, namely, the semantic classification of verbs. In particular, the groups as motion verbs, destruction verbs, and phasal verbs tend to be labile across languages.

Abstract

The present paper focuses on labile verbs – lexemes which can behave transitively or intransitively without a formal change. Haspelmath (1993a) and Comrie (2006) claim that the semantic spontaneity is the crucial factor for the distribution of inchoative/causative oppositions, based on data of the causative and the anticausative formal type. In contrast, my analysis of labile verbs across languages shows that for lability, another factor is crucial, namely, the semantic classification of verbs. In particular, the groups as motion verbs, destruction verbs, and phasal verbs tend to be labile across languages.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  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
Transitivity
Ein Kapitel aus dem Buch Transitivity
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.166.10let

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  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
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