2. Leipzig Questionnaire on valency classes

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Abbreviations ix
4. Acknowledgments x
5. List of authors xi
6. Part I: The Leipzig Valency Classes Project: Introducing the Framework
7. 1. Introduction 3
8. 2. Leipzig Questionnaire on valency classes 27
9. 3. Comparing verbal valency across languages 41
10. 4. Valency classes and alternations: parameters of variation 73
11. 5. Transitivity prominence 131
12. 5a. Assessing transitivity prominence from a statistical perspective: A commentary on Martin Haspelmath’s “Transitivity prominence” 149
13. 6. Statistical observations on implicational (verb) hierarchies 155
14. Part II: Case Studies
15. Africa
16. 7. Valency in Nllng 185
17. 8. Valency properties of Mandinka verbs 221
18. 9. Emai valency classes and their alternations 261
19. 10. Valency classes in Yorùbá 299
20. 11. Valency properties of verbs in Modern Standard Arabic 327
21. Eurasia
22. 12. Icelandic valency classes: oblique subjects, oblique ambitransitives and the actional passive 367
23. 13. Valency patterns in Italian 417
24. 14. Valency classes in Eastern Armenian 483
25. 15. Valency and valency classes in Bezhta 541
26. 16. Valency classes in Even (North Tungusic) in a comparative Tungusic perspective 571
27. 17. Valency properties of the Ket verb clause 629
28. 18. Flexible valency in Chintang 669
29. 19. Valency classes in Mandarin 709
30. 20. Valency classes in Japanese 765
31. 21. Valency classes in Ainu 807
32. Language index 855
33. Subject index 861