The typological studies of this volume are oriented towards the areas of interests of the Russian typologist Vladimir P. Nedjalkov, to whom the volume is dedicated. They deal with the typology of verbal categories. The book is divided into three parts: 1. "Ergativity and transitivity", 2. "Voice, causative and valency", 3. "Tense and mood". In all three parts of the volume instances of grammaticalization are pointed out and investigated. The studies concern various languages, e.g. English, French, German, Russian, Hungarian, Dutch, Tariana (a North Arawak language from North West Amazonia), Dumi (a Tibeto-Burman language), and Lak (a Daghestanian language).

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Contents: Leonid Kulikov/Heinz Vater, Introduction. - I. Ergativity and Transitivity: Jean-Pierre Desclés/Zlatka Guentchéva, Causalité, Causativité, Transitivité. - Yakov G. Testelec, On Two Parameters of Transitivity. - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Transitivity Increasing Operations in Tariana. - Casper de Groot, How to Butter a Sandwich. On spread in Dutch and Hungarian from a Typological Perspective. - Werner Drossard, Labile Verben in akkusativischen und ergativischen Sprachen. - Theodora Bynon, Inverse Direction and Second Person in Dumi. - Konstantin Kazenin, On Patient Demotion in Lak. - II. Voice, Causative and Valency: Masayoshi Shibatani, Voice Parameters. - Leonid I. Kulikov, Passive, Anticausative and Classification of Verbs: the Case of Vedic. - Heinrich Werner, Zur Typologie der Passivkonstruktionen in den Jenissej-Sprachen. - Juan Carlos Moreno Cabrera, Allocutivity and Voice in the Basque Verb. - Alexander K. Ogloblin, From Inert to Actional Causative. - Jurij P. Knjazev, Towards a Typology of Grammatical Polysemy: Refelxive Markers as Markers of Reciprocity. - Simon van de Kerke, Verb Formation in Leko: Causatives, Reflexives and Reciprocals. - III. Tense and Mood: Jarmila Panevová/Petr Sgall, Verbal Categories, Meaning and Typology. - Wolfgang Klein/Heinz Vater, The Perfect in English and German. - Gilbert Lazard, L'expression de l'irréel: essai de typologie. - Elena Kordi, Sur le paradigme complet de l'impératif français. - IV. Verbal Categories and Language Universals: Walter Bisang, Verb Serialization and Attractor Positions: Constructions and Their Potential Impact on Language Change and Language Contact. - Johan van der Auwera, Defining Converbs. - Bernard Comrie, Translatability and Universals Revisited. - Ronald Lötzsch, Die Verneinung als funktional-semantische Kategorie (unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Streckformen des Deutschen und Russischen).