Verb Valency Changes : Theoretical and Typological Perspectives.

Intro -- Verb Valency Changes -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- List of abbreviations -- Preface -- Overview of the papers -- Part I. Theoretical perspectives on verb valency change -- Markedness effects in applicative formation -- 1. Voice ambivalence: Preliminary illustrations -- 2. Causative-applicative polysemy -- 3. Applicative-antipassive polysemy -- 4. Applicative reversal -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Morphosyntactic defectiveness in complex predicate formation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical background -- 2.1 Mithun's (1984) types of NI -- 2.2 Conceptual approach to NI (Borthen 2003 -- Carlson 2010) -- 2.3 Towards a morphosyntactic approach to NI -- 3. Morphosyntactic defectiveness in NI -- 3.1 NI in Uto-Aztecan (Jelinek 1998 -- Haugen 2007, 2008) -- 3.2 NI in Romance (Dobrovie-Sorin et al. 2006 -- Espinal 2010 -- Espinal &amp -- McNally 2007a, 2007b, 2011) -- 3.2 NI in Romance (Dobrovie-Sorin et al. 2006 -- Espinal 2010 -- Espinal &amp -- McNally 2007a, 2007b, 2011) -- 3.3 Clitic incorporation in Mexican Spanish (Navarro 2009 -- Navarro &amp -- Espinal 2012) -- 3.3 Clitic incorporation in Mexican Spanish (Navarro 2009 -- Navarro &amp -- Espinal 2012) -- 4. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Two types of locative alternation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Incorporation and conflation processes: A syntactic approach -- 3. The locative alternation variants as resultative-like constructions -- 4. The prefixed variants of locative alternation -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Part II. Verb valency changes across languages -- Transitivity and valency-changing operations in Huasteca Nahuatl -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The language and the data -- 3. The notions of transitivity and valency.

4. Transitivity and valency-changing operations in Huasteca Nahuatl -- 4.1 Intransitive, transitive and ditransitive clauses in Huasteca Nahuatl -- 4.2 Valency-changing operations in Huasteca Nahuatl -- 4.3 Noun incorporation in Huasteca Nahuatl -- 5. Final remarks -- References -- The semantics of Nahuatl tla- constructions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Nahuatl tla- constructions -- 3. The tla- formal status -- 4. Types of tla- predicate constructions -- 4.1 The Hale &amp -- Keyser's theory of Argument Structure -- 4.2 Transitive verbal bases for tla‑ constructions -- 4.3 Unergative verbal bases -- 4.4 Unaccusative verbal bases -- 5. A note on the anti antipassivisation analysis of Nahuatl tla- constructions -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Valency-changing operations in Yaqui resultatives -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Yaqui language -- 3. Resultative constructions -- 4. Resultative constructions in Yaqui -- 4.1 Monovalent resultatives in Yaqui -- 4.2 Bivalent resultatives in Yaqui -- 5. Final remarks -- References -- Tlachichilco Tepehua: Semantics and function of verb valency change -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Morphosyntax of verb valency changes -- 2.1 Core arguments -- 2.2 Adjuncts: The periphery -- 3. A frame-semantics interpretation of applicatives -- 3.1 Frame-external readings -- 3.2 Frame-internal readings -- 4. Syntactic function of verb valency change -- 5. Final comments and conclusion -- References -- A panorama of valency changing operations in Seri: A panorama of valency changing operations in Seri -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Robust valency decreasing operations -- 2.1 Passive (short) -- 2.2 Unspecified subject -- 2.3 Antipassive (implicit argument type) -- 3. Robust valency increasing operations -- 3.1 Causative -- 3.2 Assistive -- 4. Less robust valency increasing operations -- 4.1 Experiencer subject -- 4.2 A few benefactive verbs.

4.3 A few more unusual verbs -- 5. Less robust valency decreasing operations -- 5.1 Sensory verbs without Experiencers -- 6. Two constructions using number predicates -- 6.1 Age construction (transitive) -- 6.2 Times construction (intransitive) -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- The antipassive marking in Mocovi: Forms and functions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Mocovi language and data -- 3. Antipassive constructions -- 3.1 Definition and functions -- 4. Main features of the active clause in Mocovi -- 4.1 The nominal phrases and independent pronouns coding -- 4.2 Verbal indexing -- 4.3 Word order -- 5. The Mocovi antipassive -- 5.1 The -(a)ɢan marker -- 5.2 The -(a)taɢan marker -- 5.3 Discussion -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Arabic 'labile verbs' in form III: Lability or something else? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Definition and distribution of labile verbs -- 2.1 The state of research -- 2.2 A-lability vs. P-lability -- 2.3 Lability and syntactic transitivity -- 3. Arabic verb system and transitivity -- 3.1 Verbal patterns -- 3.2 Syntactic indefiniteness -- 3.3 Form III and non-standard transitivity -- 4. Lability in form III -- 4.1 sāwā -- 4.2 mātala -- 4.3 ṣālaħa -- 4.4 fāraqa -- 4.5 qāraba -- 4.6 ṭābaqa -- 4.7 wāzana -- 4.8 Intransitive structures with bayna: What is the functional motivation? -- 4.9 Variation in form III: Summary -- 5. Labile verbs of other forms -- 6. Lability of derived verbs: Some parallels in other languages -- 7. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Valency-decreasing operations in a valency-increasing language? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background on West Circassian -- 3. Valency increase -- 3.1 Applicatives -- 3.2 Causatives -- 3.3 Summary -- 4. Valency decrease? -- 4.1 Anticausatives -- 4.2 Agent suppression without detransitivization -- 4.3 Means of detransitivization -- 4.4 Antipassive-like constructions.

5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Language index -- Subject index.

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