P-lability and radical P-alignment

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ID3989265
AuthorsDenis Creissels (0000-0003-4220-7950, Université Lumière Lyon 2, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume52
Issue4
Publication date2014-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLinguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ling-2014-0012
OpenAlexW2079809588
LanguageEN
Citations received16

The study of P-lability in languages in which the relationship between transitive and intransitive predication can be characterized as radical P-alignment must take into account the formal distinction between weak and strong lability, and the semantic distinction between argument structure modifying and argument structure preserving lability. Radical P-alignment is particularly common among Daghestanian languages in which some authors operating with a loose definition of P-lability have argued that P-lability is pervasive, whereas others have argued that, in the same languages, P-lability is exceptional. On the basis of more precise definitions, it is shown that, in the languages in question, all transitive verbs exhibit a behavior whose characterization as a type of lability may be controversial, depending on the definition of lability, whereas some of them only show a behavior that stands closer to prototypical lability. This paper argues that the observation of causativization is particularly relevant to the analysis of lability in such languages

Argument (complex analysis) · Combinatorics · Lability · Linguistics · Transitive relation · Chemistry · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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