Case, valency and transitivity

The three concepts of case, valency and transitivity belong to the most discussed topics of modern linguistics. On the one hand, they are crucially connected with morphological aspects of the clause, including case marking, person agreement and voice. On the other hand, they are related to several semantic issues such as the meaning of case, semantico-syntactic verbal classes, and the semantic correlates of transitivity. The volume unifies papers written within different theoretical frameworks and representing variegated approaches (Optimality Theory, Government and Binding, various versions of the Functional approach, Cross-linguistic and Typological analyses), containing both numerous new findings in individual languages and valuable observations and generalizations related to case, valency and transitivity.

[1]  R. Godel.  An Introduction to the Study of Classical Armenian , 1990 .

[2]  Jules Bloch.  L'indo-aryen du Veda aux temps modernes , 1934 .

[3]  H. Sasse.  Case in cushitic, semitic and berber , 1984 .

[4]  O. Szemerényi.  Einführung in die Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft , 1974 .

[5]  Terje Mathiassen.  A short grammar of Lithuanian , 1996 .

[6]  S. Luraghi.  Patterns of case syncretism in Indo-European languages , 1987 .

[7]  Gilbert Lazard,et al.  Transitivity Revisited as an Example of a More Strict Approach in Typological Research , 2002 .

[8]  L. Kulikov,et al.  Typology of verbal categories : papers presented to Vladimir Nedjalkov on the occasion of his 70th birthday , 1998 .

[9]  Robert Dixon,et al.  Changing valency Case studies in transitivity: Introduction , 2000 .

[10]  A. Meillet.  Esquisse d'une grammaire comparée de l'arménien classique , 1903 .

[11]  M. Silverstein.  7. Hierarchy of Features and Ergativity , 1986 .

[12]  Robert A. Orr,et al.  Common Slavic Nominal Morphology: A New Synthesis , 2002 .

[13]  Nicholas Poppe,et al.  Comparative grammar of the Uralic languages , 1964 .

[14]  A History of the Spanish Language , 1991 .

[15]  Lauri Hakulinen,et al.  The Structure and Development of the Finnish Language , 1997 .

[16]  R. Dixon,et al.  Non-canonical marking of subjects and objects , 2001 .

[17]  Werner Abraham,et al.  Arguments and case: explaining Burzio's Generalization , 1999 .

[18]  Horace G. Lunt,et al.  Russische historische Grammatik , 1976 .

[19]  Andrea Calabrese,et al.  Some remarks on the Latin case system and its development in Romance , 1998 .

[20]  Simon C. Dik,et al.  The theory of functional grammar , 1989 .

[21]  Robert S.P. Beekes,et al.  Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An introduction , 1995 .

[22]  Andrew L. Sihler,et al.  New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin , 1995 .

[23]  Judith Aissen,et al.  Differential Object Marking: Iconicity vs. Economy , 2003 .