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Deals with cross-linguistic variation in valency classes in terms of argument coding and argument alternations. This book uncovers the universal and the language-particular in this area, the work includes synoptic introductory articles, 30 in-depth questionnaire-based studies of valency classes in languages from across the world, and more.

Deals with cross-linguistic variation in valency classes in terms of argument coding and argument alternations. This book uncovers the universal and the language-particular in this area, the work includes synoptic introductory articles, 30 questionnaire-based studies of valency classes in languages from across the world, and more.

In this handbook thirteen current approaches to syntactic description are presented (Part I) along with six studies on their metatheoretical underpinnings (Part II). The goal is to facilitate a systematic comparison among the approaches. All accounts address the same issues and are structured uniformly for an item-by-item survey across the frameworks. The volume is of interest for grammarians, philosophers of science, and cognitive scientists.