Valency classes in the world's languages. Volume 1, Introducing the framework, and case studies from Africa and Eurasia / edited by Andrej Malchukov, Bernard Comrie.

Earlier empirical studies on valency have looked at the phenomenon either in individual languages or a small range of languages, or have concerned themselves with only small subparts of valency (e.g. transitivity, ditransitive constructions), leaving a lacuna that the present volume aims to fill by...

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