Valency Over Time: Diachronic Perspectives on Valency Patterns and Valency Orientation

by Silvia Luraghi and Elisa Roma

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110755602
• ISBN13: 9783110755602
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"