Denis Creissels is Professor Emeritus at the University of Lyon. Until his retirement in 2008 he taught general linguistics at the University of Grenoble (1971-1996) and the University of Lyon (1996-2008). His research focuses on linguistic diversity, the description of less-studied languages, and morphosyntactic typology, and he has carried out fieldwork on West African languages (Baule, Manding, Balanta, Soninke, Jóola), Southern Bantu languages (Tswana), and Daghestanian languages (Akhvakh). His many publications include the widely-used Syntaxe génerale. Une introduction typologique (Hermès, 2006).

• 1: Introduction 2: Participant roles and participant coding 3: Syntactic transitivity 4: The transitive construction 5: Transitive-intransitive alignment 6: Impersonal and anti-impersonal constructions 7: Transitive coding and valency 8: Voice alternations 9: Passivization and S-denucleativization 10: Antipassivization 11: Decausativization, reflexivization, reciprocalization, and middle voices 12: Causativization 13: Non-causative A/S-nucleativization 14: Applicativization 15: Flexivalency alternations 16: The noncausal-causal alternation, the psych alternation, and the undirected-directed alternation 17: Noun incorporation, transitivity, and valency 18: Conclusion