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How do new ways of encoding valence alternations emerge, how and why do they spread, and what are the consequences of their emergence and spread for already existing patterns? This book discusses these questions on the basis of a concrete example of valence alternation, the French causative-anticausative alternation. The main focus of the proposed analysis is the anticausative member of the alternation and the relation between the two formal types of anticausative verbs in French, the reflexive and the unmarked anticausative (La branche s'est cassée vs. La branche a cassé 'The branch broke'). The emergence and spread of the reflexive anticausative, the consequences of these processes for the unmarked anticausative and the semantic relation between reflexive and unmarked anticausatives are analyzed on the basis of several corpus studies.

French language --- Grammar --- Causative. --- Reflexives. --- Verb. --- Grammar, Historical. --- Langue d'oïl --- Romance languages --- Changement linguistique --- Grammaire de dépendance --- Causatif (linguistique) --- Constructions réfléchies (linguistique) --- Linguistics. --- Romance Studies. --- Semantics. --- Syntax. --- Valency. --- Grammaire de dépendance --- Constructions réfléchies (linguistique)

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This new volume serves to focus and clarify the debate surrounding long-distance reflexives by examining the role of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics/discourse in the use of long-distance reflexives in a variety of languages. Graduate students, upper class undergraduates, theoretical linguists, computational linguists, psycholinguists, and linguists at large will find this an important tool. Syntacticians, as well as specialists in language acquisition and processing, will find the volume central to their work. The book is also of great value to those interested in Asian languages, especially Chinese. It will serve as primary reading material for seminars on anaphora. Among its key features, it: discusses a broad range of questions about syntactic categories; and presents a number of theoretical frameworks.

Grammar --- Pragmatics --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Government-binding theory (Linguistics) --- Constructions réfléchies (Linguistique) --- Théorie du liage et du gouvernement (Linguistique) --- Reflexives --- Anaphora (Linguistics) --- -Comparative grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Language and languages --- Philosophical grammar --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Binding theory (Linguistics) --- Government and binding (Linguistics) --- Generative grammar --- Cross-reference (Linguistics) --- Reference (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Comparative --- -Reflexives --- -Binding theory (Linguistics) --- Comparative grammar --- Constructions réfléchies (Linguistique) --- Théorie du liage et du gouvernement (Linguistique) --- Reflexives (Grammar) --- Reflexivity (Grammar) --- Reflexivization (Grammar) --- Pronoun --- Reciprocals --- Verb --- Grammar, syntax. --- Language Arts & Disciplines --- Medical --- Reflexives. --- Grammar & Punctuation. --- Audiology & Speech Pathology.