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

Valency patterns and valency orientation have been frequent topics of research under different perspectives, often poorly connected. Diachronic studies on these

This handbook comprises an in-depth presentation of the state of the art in word-formation. The five volumes contain 207 articles written by leading internation

This collection of papers is the first book ever published in English that presents detailed analyses of valency and transitivity alternations in Japanese from