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?his book offers a new approach to the theory of change in argument structure and voice morphology. It investigates the diachrony of transitivity, and especially the changes in causative verbs and transitivity alternations, based on data mainly from the Greek and English diachrony (all historical data are transcribed and accompanied by glosses and translations into Modern English). Data from earlier periods provide new information on burning questions in both Historical and Theoretical Lingui...

Historical linguistics. --- English language --- Greek language --- Classical languages --- Indo-European languages --- Classical philology --- Greek philology --- Diachronic linguistics --- Dynamic linguistics --- Evolutionary linguistics --- Language and languages --- Language and history --- Linguistics --- Transitivity. --- Morphology. --- Transitive verb --- Clauses --- Verb phrase --- History --- Germanic languages