Introduction. Issues in contrastive valency studies

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu In Memoriam vii
4. Introduction. Issues in contrastive valency studies 1
5. Part I. Argument coding
6. Multiple case binding – The principled underspecification of case exponency 27
7. Infinitives 83
8. A labeling system for valency 109
9. Non-canonical valency patterns in Basque, variation and evolution 151
10. Part II. Valency rearranging alternations
11. Exploring the domain of ditransitive constructions 177
12. Cognate constructions in Italian and beyond 219
13. Object omission and the semantics of predicates in Italian in a comparative perspective 251
14. On animacy restrictions for the null object in Brazilian Portuguese 275
15. Part III. Voice and valency changing (uncoded/coded) alternations and markers
16. Between Passive and Middle 297
17. Valency alternations between inflection and derivation 327
18. Pronominal verbs across European languages 375
19. Semantic constraints on the reflexive/non-reflexive alternation of Romanian unaccusatives 407
20. Circumfixed causatives in Polish against a panorama of active and non-active voice morphology 431
21. Language index 471
22. Subject index 473