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Valency patterns and valency orientation have been frequent topics of research under different perspectives, often poorly connected. Diachronic studies on these topics is even less systematic than synchronic ones. The papers in this book bring together two strands of research on valency, i.e. the description of valency patterns as worked out in the Leipzig Valency Classes Project (ValPaL), and the assessment of a language's basic valency and its possible orientation. Notably, the ValPaL does not provide diachronic information concerning the valency patterns investigated: one of the aims of the book is to supplement the available data with data from historical stages of languages, in order to make it profitably exploitable for diachronic research. In addition, new research on the diachrony of basic valency and valency alternations can deepen our understanding of mechanisms of language change and of the propensity of languages or language families to exploit different constructional patterns related to transitivity.

Linguistic change. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Transitivity.

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Main Clause Phenomena: New Horizons takes the study of Main Clause Phenomena (MCP) into the 21st century, without neglecting the origins of the topic. It brings together work by both established and up-and-coming scholars, who present analyses for a wide range of MCP, from a variety of languages, with a particular focus on particles and agreement markers, complementizers and verb second, and the licensing of MCP in different types of clauses. Besides enriching the empirical domain, this volume also engages with the theoretical question of how best to capture the distribution of MCP and,

Causative (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Generative grammar. --- Causal relations (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Generative --- Grammar, Transformational --- Grammar, Transformational generative --- Transformational generative grammar --- Transformational grammar --- Psycholinguistics --- Transitivity (Grammar) --- Transitivity. --- Causative constructions --- Syntax --- Derivation --- Verb --- Transitivity --- Verb phrase --- Linguistics --- Philology

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The Iranian languages, due to their exceptional time-depth of attestation, constitute one of the very few instances where a shift from accusative alignment to split-ergativity is actually documented. Yet remarkably, within historical syntax, the Iranian case has received only very superficial coverage. This book provides the first in-depth treatment of alignment change in Iranian, from Old Persian (5 C. BC) to the present. The first part of the book examines the claim that ergativity in Middle Iranian emerged from an Old Iranian agented passive construction. This view is rejected in favour of a theory which links the emergence of ergativity to External Possession. Thus the primary mechanisms involved is not reanalysis, but the extension of a pre-existing construction. The notion of Non-Canonical Subjecthood plays a pivotal role, which in the present account is linked to the semantics of what is termed Indirect Participation. In the second part of the book, a comparative look at contemporary West Iranian is undertaken. It can be shown that throughout the subsequent developments in the morphosyntax, distinct components such as agreement, nominal case marking, or the grammar of cliticisation, in fact developed remarkably independently of one another. It was this de-coupling of sub-systems of the morphosyntax that led to the notorious multiplicity of alignment types in Iranian, a fact that also characterises past-tense alignments in the sister branch of Indo-European, Indo-Aryan. Along with data from more than 20 Iranian languages, presented in a manner that renders them accessible to the non-specialist, there is extensive discussion of more general topics such as the adequacy of functional accounts of changes in case systems, discourse pressure and the role of animacy, the notion of drift, and the question of alignment in early Indo-European.

Iranian languages --- Eranian languages --- Indo-Iranian languages --- Verb. --- Ergative constructions. --- Transitivity. --- Tense. --- Construction grammar, Iranian, Kurdish.

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Chamorro language --- Tjamoro language --- Malayan languages --- Micronesian languages --- Transitivity. --- Discourse analysis. --- Passive voice. --- Grammar --- Pragmatics --- Austronesian languages

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This volume brings together 18 typological studies of causative and related constructions (transitivity, voice, other expressions of cause) by 19 scholars from North America, Western Europe, and Russia. The inspirations for the volume is the pioneering work on causative constructions by the Leningrad Typology Group; several of the contributors have close connections to the charter members of that group, others have appreciated this work from a distance. The volume as a whole is based on the concept of causative constructions as embracing both morphology and syntax, with an important semantic c

Causative (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Transitivity --- Causaliteit (Taalwetenschap) --- Causality (Linguistics) --- Causalité (Linguistique) --- Causatiefvormen (Taalwetenschap) --- Causatieve constructies (Taalwetenschap) --- Causatieven (Taalwetenschap) --- Causatif (Linguistique) --- Causative constructions (Linguistics) --- Causatives (Linguistics) --- Oorzakelijkheid (Taalwetenschap) --- Grammar --- Grammar [Comparative and general ] --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Causal relations (Linguistics) --- Transitivity. --- Causative constructions --- Syntax --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Transitivity