Distinguished scholars examine the phenomena of passives and causatives in languages from around the world.

This volume surveys a variety of verb valency change phenomena among diverse languages and from diverse theoretical viewpoints. It offers typological studies co

The three concepts of case, valency and transitivity belong to the most discussed topics of modern linguistics. On the one hand, they are crucially connected wi

Zapotec languages present a wide range of lexical, morphological, phonological, and syntactic means of indicating valence changes. Despite their significant the

This volume is a collection of articles concerned with the typology of valency and valence change in a large and diversified sample of languages that display er