Transitivizing and detransitivizing languages

Linguistic Typology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 149-211

  Nichols, Johanna ^a   Peterson, David A ^a   Barnes, Jonathan ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Alignment; Animacy; Areality; Causative; Derivation; Diathesis; Lexical typology; Lexicalization; Transitivity; Valence; Verb; Word formation; Word order

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248712315     PISSN: 14300532     EISSN: 1613415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/lity.2004.005     Document Type: Review

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