On transitivity
- This paper critically discusses and contrasts some of the different conceptualisations of transitivity that have been presented in the literature, and argues that transitivity as a morphosyntactic phenomenon and effectiveness of an event as a semantic concept should be separated in discussions of transitivity, and also, like many other aspects of grammar, transitivity should be seen as a constructional phenomenon, and so each construction in a language needs to be examined separately, in natural contexts. An Appendix presents some general questions one can consider when analysing language data.
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| Author: | Randy J. LaPolla, František Kratochvíl, Alexander R. Coupe |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-380467 |
| URL: | http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/randylapolla/papers/LaPolla_Kratochvil_and_Coupe_2011_On_transitivity.pdf |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.35.3.00int |
| ISSN: | 1569-9978 |
| ISSN: | 0378-4177 |
| Parent Title (English): | Studies in language : international journal sponsored by the Foundation "Foundations of Language" |
| Publisher: | Benjamins |
| Place of publication: | Amsterdam |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2011 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2011 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2015/09/02 |
| GND Keyword: | Konstruktionsgrammatik; Ergativ; Thematische Relation; Transitivität; Valenz <Linguistik> |
| Volume: | 35 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Page Number: | 24 |
| First Page: | 469 |
| Last Page: | 491 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 370130898 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Syntax |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: Sprachtypologie / Language typology | |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: Grammatikforschung / Grammar research | |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
