Overview

This volume brings together 18 typological studies of causative and related constructions (transitivity, voice, other expressions of cause) by 19 scholars from North America, Western Europe, and Russia. The inspirations for the volume is the pioneering work on causative constructions by the Leningrad Typology Group; several of the contributors have close connections to the charter members of that group, others have appreciated this work from a distance. The volume as a whole is based on the concept of causative constructions as embracing both morphology and syntax, with an important semantic component as well. In addition to general studies concerning the morpho syntactic and semantic typology and the history of causative constructions and relations to other phenomena, the following individual languages are treated in detail: Russian, English, Dutch, Svan, Even, Korean, Yukaghir, Alutor, Aleut, Haruai, Dogon, Athabaskan languages. The volume will be of interest to typologists, to other linguists interested in causative constructions and transitivity relations, and to all who are interested in the linguistic expression of causal relations.

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Author:   Bernard Comrie ,  Maria Polinsky
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   23
Dimensions:   Width: 16.40cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 24.50cm
Weight:   0.890kg
ISBN:  

9789027230263

ISBN 10:   9027230269
Pages:   399
Publication Date:   09 September 1993
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Preface; 2. The inflectional category of voice: towards a more rigorous definition (by Mel'cuk, Igor); 3. Transitivity increase in Athabaskan languages (by Kibrik, Andrej A.); 4. Transitive and causative in the Slavic lexicon: evidence from Russian (by Nichols, Johanna); 5. More on the typology of inchoative/causative verb alternations (by Haspelmath, Martin); 6. The second causative : a typological sketch (by Kulikov, Leonid); 7. Make and the semantic origins of causativity: a typological study (by Moreno Cabrera, Juan Carlos); 8. Causatives and causality: towards a semantic typology of causal relations (by Podlesskaya, Vera I.); 9. Causee and patient in the causative of transitive: coding conflict or doubling of grammatical relations? (by Kozinsky, Isaac); 10. Bystander voice in English: a generalization masked in some versions of theta theory (by Chvany, Catherine V.); 11. Causative constructions in Svan: further evidence for role domination (by Sumbatova, Nina R.); 12. The causative in Yukaghir (by Maslova, Elena S.); 13. Alutor causatives, noun incorporation, and the Mirror Principle (by Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria); 14. Some remarks on causatives and transitivity in Haruai (by Comrie, Bernard); 15. Through the looking-glass, and how causatives look there (by Kulikov, Leonid); 16. Hybrid causative constructions: benefactive causative and adversity passive (by Babby, Leonard H.); 17. Adversative constructions in Even in relation to passive and permissive (by Malchukov, Andrej); 18. On non-causative effects of causativity in Aleut (by Golovko, Evgeniy V.); 19. Three causatives in Dogon and the overlapping of causative and passive markers (by Plungian, Vladimir A.); 20. Index of languages

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