Robert M. W. Dixon

Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd

This book provides a general perspective on valency-changing mechanisms - passives, antipassives, causatives, applicatives - in the languages of the world. It contains a comprehensive typology of causatives by R. M. W. Dixon, and detailed descriptions of valency-changing mechanisms in ten individual languages by leading scholars, based on original fieldwork. The sample languages span five continents and every kind of structural profile. Each contributor draws out the theoretical status and implications of valency-changing derivations in their language of study, and the relevant parameters are drawn together, and typological possibilities delineated, in the editors' introduction. The volume, originally published in 2000, will interest typologists, those working in the fields of morphosyntactic variation and lexical semantics, and exponents of formal theories engaging with the range of linguistic diversity found in natural language.

Case Studies in Transitivity

Changing Valency

This text offers a cross-linguistic account of classifiers. Its range of exemplification includes major and minor languages from every continent and several of the examples are from the author's own fieldwork.

A Typology of Noun Categorization Devices

Classifiers

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

R. M. W. Dixon

This book explores the expression of information source, inferences, assumptions, probability and possibility, and gradations of doubt and beliefs across a wide range of languages in different cultural settings. Like others in the series it will interest both linguists and linguistically-minded anthropologists.

A Cross-Linguistic Typology

The Grammar of Knowledge

The first volume to offer a thorough and systematic account of evidentiality and the expression of information source, Illustrated with extensive data from a range of typologically diverse languages, Introductory chapter offers practical advice for fieldworkers investigating evidentially, Interdisciplinary in nature with insights from typology, semantics, pragmatics, language description, anthropology, cognitive psychology, and psycholinguistics Book jacket.

The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality

Linguists and anthropologists explore the intriguing variety of possessive phrases denoting ownership of property, whole-part relations (such as body and plant parts), and blood and affinal kinship relations across a wide range of languages. Like others in the series this pioneering book will be equally valued in linguistics and anthropology.

Possession and Ownership

Alexandra Aikhenvald

Aleksandra IUrevna Aikhenvald

Aleksandra 隝霼rvna·A鎖khenval

Distinguished Professor Australian Laureate Fellow and Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre Alexandra Y Aikhenvald

A comprehensive reference grammar of Tariana, an endangered Arawak language from the northwest Amazonian jungle.

A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia

This book provides an in-depth typological account of the forms, functions, and histories of serial verb constructions, in which several verbs combine to form a single predicate. It uses an inductively-based framework for the analysis and draws on data from languages with different typological profiles and genetic affiliations.

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