Macroscopic and microscopic typology: Basic Valence Orientation, more pertinacious than meets the naked eye
Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: Basic Valence Orientation has been suggested as a typological parameter by Nichols, Peterson, & Barnes (2004). Generalising over the entire lexicon, the idea is that languages can be distinguished as transitivising or detransitivising, depending on whether their verbs are basically intransitive or transitive and the opposite valency values require some means of derivation, such as causativisation or decausativisation. Whereas derivedness among valency opposites is assessed through easy-to-spot overt segmental morphological or syntactic markers by
Source: Linguistic Typology
Authors: Frans Plank, Aditi Lahiri
Institutions: University of Konstanz, University of Oxford
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2290467228