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

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