Verb Valency Changes Gonzlez Albert Lvareznavarro Ia by González, Albert Álvarez;navarro, Ia; 9789027265265, 9027265267 instant download after payment.

The notion of verb valency deals with the question of how many participants a certain verb presupposes in order for the event denoted by the verb to be realizable, in this sense it refers to the capacity of a verb to take a specific number and type of arguments. A single verbal meaning canonically corresponds to a single valency setting. However, in many cases, semantically close uses of verbs can be syntactically structured in different ways. Moreover, verb valency may be affected by different semantic and syntactic processes, and the type of such processes commonly depends on the type of language in question. Hence knowing the nature of these valency-changing processes together with the typological description of the valency change are topics of great interest for the linguistic sciences and a necessary task for the general understanding of valency change.

This book was born from the papers presented at the Workshop on Verb Valency Change held at the University of Sonora in Hermosillo (Sonora, Mexico) on March 21–22, 2013. The main objective of this workshop was to bring together linguists working on morphosyntactic, lexico-syntactic, semantic and pragmatic aspects of verb valency changes, in order to study this phenomenon in a diversity of languages and from a diversity of theoretical perspectives. This workshop and now the book presented here represent a clear indication of the growing interest in understanding how languages deal with argument realization in the context of verb valency changes, and in knowing what types of languages use what kind of constructions involving the valency change.