Questions on transitivity

  • This handout (it isn’t a paper) presents phenomena and questions, rather than conclusions, related to the concept of transitivity. The idea is to return to these questions at the end of the Workshop to see if we can have a clearer consensus about the best general analysis of phenomena associated with transitivity. Section 2 presents alternative analyses of transitivity and questions about transitivity in three languages I have worked on. Section 3 discusses a few of the different conceptualisations of transitivity that might be relevant to our thinking about the questions related to these languages or that bring up further questions. Section 4 presents some general questions that might be asked of individual languages.

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Author:Randy J. LaPollaORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1158013
URL:http://victoria.linguistlist.org/~lapolla//rjlapolla/papers/Questions_on_transitivity.pdf
Parent Title (English):Presentation to open the Workshop on Transitivity, Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, La Trobe University, 21 August, 2008
Document Type:Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2010/07/19
Year of first Publication:2008
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2010/07/19
GND Keyword:Tibetobirmanische Sprachen; Nungisch
Page Number:22
Source:http://victoria.linguistlist.org/~lapolla//rjlapolla/papers/Questions_on_transitivity.pdf ; Presentation to open the Workshop on Transitivity, Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, La Trobe University, 21 August, 2008
HeBIS-PPN:247009717
Dewey Decimal Classification:4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache
Sammlungen:Linguistik
Linguistik-Klassifikation:Linguistik-Klassifikation: Syntax
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht