Transitivity, diachrony, and language contact

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Valency and transitivity over time: An introduction 1
4. Transitivity, diachrony, and language contact 13
5. Valency patterns and alternations in Gothic 31
6. Valency Patterns of Old Irish verbs: finite and non-finite syntax 89
7. Anticausativization and basic valency orientation in Latin 133
8. Basic valency in diachrony: from Ancient to Modern Greek 169
9. Basic causative verb patterns in Uralic: Retention and renewal in grammar and lexicon 209
10. The many ways of transitivization in Totoli 235
11. Anticausatives and lability in Italian and French: a diachronic-synchronic comparative study 265
12. Phonologically conditioned lability in Soninke (West-Mande) and its historical explanation 305
13. Index of Authors 329
14. Index of Subjects 335
15. Index of Languages 339