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Preface |
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List of Abbreviations and Acronyms |
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1.1 Aim and Objectives of the Research |
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1.2 Transitivity, Prototypical Transitivity, and Causativity |
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1.3 Transitivity Alternations |
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1.4 The Study of Transitivity and the Diachronic Approach |
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1.4.1 The problems and the contribution of diachronic study |
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1.6 The Structure of the Monograph |
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Chapter Two Theoretical Framework |
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2.1 Transitivity, Syntax, and Lexicon-Syntax Interface |
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2.1.1 Transitivity and syntax |
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2.1.2 Transitivity and lexicon-syntax interface |
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36 | (6) |
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2.1.3 The derivational basis issue: the relationship between the derivation of the transitive and intransitive types |
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2.1.4 Morphology, argument structure, and transitivity |
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44 | (4) |
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48 | (2) |
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2.2 Language Change and Transitivity |
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50 | (13) |
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2.2.1 Generative Grammar and diachrony |
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2.2.2 Language change, language acquisition, and reanalysis |
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2.2.3 Input, cues, and PLD |
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2.2.4 Diachrony and transitivity in Greek: a review of the literature |
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Chapter Three Diachronic Data and Analysis |
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3.1 From Homeric to Classical Greek |
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3.1.1 The overall picture |
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3.1.2 Innovative causative use of intransitive verbs: from ablaut alternation to productive causativisation |
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3.1.3 Derivation and voice of the transitivity alternations: the contrast between the active causative and the non-active anticausative |
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3.2 The Hellenistic-Roman Period |
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3.2.1 The general picture |
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3.2.2 Innovative causative use of intransitive verbs: causativisation of intransitives vs. case changes in accusative verbs |
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3.2.3 Transitivity alternation derivation and voice: changes towards marking of the anticausative with active voice |
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3.3.1 The general picture |
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3.3.2 Innovative causative use of intransitive verbs: is there a limit to causativisations? |
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3.3.3 Derivation of transitivity alternations and voice: absorption of the accusative case by the non-active voice and tendency towards active causatives and anticausatives |
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3.3.4 From Medieval to Modern Greek |
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161 | (1) |
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3.4 Parallel Developments in the Diachrony of English and Romance |
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3.4.1 Innovative causative use of intransitive verbs: direction of the changes |
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3.4.2 Derivation of transitivity alternations and voice: morphological instability in transitivity alternations and differentiation between anticausative and passive |
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Chapter Four Diachronic Course and Derivation of Transitivity Alternations |
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4.1 Reanalysis, Cues, and Causativisation |
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4.1.1 Reanalysis of intransitive as transitive |
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179 | (4) |
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4.1.2 Cues for reanalysis |
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4.2 The Role of Voice in Syntactic Changes |
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4.2.1 The course and the interpretation of changes in voice |
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187 | (4) |
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4.2.2 Voice head, anticausative, and passive |
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4.2.3 The feature [ non-act] |
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4.3 Derivation of Transitivity Alternations: the Basic Causative Schema |
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4.3.1 Basic schema of alternating verbs: previous analyses |
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4.3.2 The proposed analysis |
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Bibliography |
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Index |
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