Download or read book Valency Classes in the World's Languages written by Andrej Malchukov and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2015-06 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two volumes deal with cross-linguistic variation in valency classes in terms of argument coding and argument alternations. The first systematic typological attempt to uncover the universal and the language-particular in this area, the work includes synoptic introductory articles, 30 in-depth questionnaire-based studies of valency classes in languages from across the world, and featured articles by leading scholars who helped shape the field.