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Description of events and participants


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Scientific framework and objectives

The research carried out as part of this topic studies the various ways in which languages formally code various types of events (actions, processes, states etc.) and the participants in these events (agents, patients, recipients, comitatives, etc.), from a typological perspective. It is concerned with the different “alignment” types that languages demonstrate in their intransitive, transitive and ditransitive constructions (nominative/accusative, ergative/absolutive, direct/indirect, primary/secondary, etc.), with the splits that certain languages demonstrate in their alignment types (split ergativity, split intransitivity etc.), and with hierarchical/inverse-type alignments. Another central question of this topic concerns the valency-changing phenomena (passive, antipassive, causative, applicative etc.) that languages have at their disposal to add semantic or pragmatic nuances to an event.


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