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The Grammar of Causative Constructions /

The Grammar of Causative Constructions / Masayoshi Shibatani. - 1 online resource. - Syntax and Semantics; 6 Syntax and Semantics Online, ISBN: 9789004425774 . - Syntax and Semantics; 6. Syntax and Semantics Online, ISBN: 9789004425774. .

Preliminary Material / The Grammar of Causative Constructions: A Conspectus / Semantic Causative Types / Remarks on What Can Cause What / The Precyclic Nature of Predicate Raising / Where Do Instrumental NPs Come from? / On Experiencer Causatives / Idioms and Lexicalization in English / The Iffyness of Transitive Verbs / On Composite Predication in English / The Syntax of Causative Constructions: Cross-Language Similarities and Divergences / Lexical and Nonlexical Causatives in Bantu / Some Constraints on Bantu Causativization / On the Semantics of the Causative Construction in Hindi-Urdu / On the Hungarian Causative Verb and Its Syntax / Some Constraints on Turkish Causativization / Lahu Causative Constructions: Case Hierarchies and the Morphology/Syntax Cycle in a Tibeto-Burman Perspective / The Causative Mechanism in Jinghpaw / The Concept of Inadvertence in Thai Periphrastic Causative Constructions / Development of the Causative in Mandarin Chinese: Interaction of Diachronic Processes in Syntax / Index / Masayoshi Shibatani -- Masayoshi Shibatani -- Leonard Talmy -- James D. Mccawley -- Frederick J. Newmeyer -- Richard H. Wojcik -- Noriko A. Mccawley -- James T. Heringer -- Robert Binnick -- Michael B. Kac -- Bernard Comrie -- Robin Cooper -- Talmy Givón -- Yamuna Kachru -- Robert Hetzron -- Karl E. Zimmer -- James A. Matisoff -- La Raw Maran And John M. Clifton -- Rasami Vichit-Vadakan -- Charles N. Li and Sandra A. Thompson -- Masayoshi Shibatani.

9789004368842 9789004368545

10.1163/9789004368842 DOI


Semantics.
Generative grammar.
Causative (Linguistics)

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