Causatives and Transitivity
Editors
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.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 23] 1993. x, 399 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Preface | p. vii
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The inflectional category of voice: towards a more rigorous definitionIgor Mel’čuk | p. 1
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Transitivity increase in Athabaskan languagesAndrej A. Kibrik | p. 47
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Transitive and causative in the Slavic lexicon: evidence from RussianJohanna Nichols | p. 69
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More on the typology of inchoative/causative verb alternationsMartin Haspelmath | p. 87
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The “second causative”: a typological sketchLeonid Kulikov | p. 121
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“Make” and the semantic origins of causativity: a typological studyJuan C. Moreno Cabrera | p. 155
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Causatives and causality: towards a semantic typology of causal relationsVera I. Podlesskaya | p. 165
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Causee and patient in the causative of transitive: coding conflict or doubling of grammatical relations?Isaac Kozinsky and Maria Polinsky | p. 177
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Bystander voice in English: a generalization masked in some versions of theta theoryCatherine V. Chvany | p. 241
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Causative constructions in Svan: further evidence for role dominationNina R. Sumbatova | p. 253
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The causative in YukaghirElena S. Maslova | p. 271
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Alutor causatives, noun incorporation, and the Mirror PrincipleMaria Koptjevskaja-Tamm and Irina A. Muravyova | p. 287
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Some remarks on causatives and transitivity in HaruaiBernard Comrie | p. 315
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Through the looking-glass, and how causatives look thereLeonid Kulikov and Nina R. Sumbatova | p. 327
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Hybrid causative constructions: benefactive causative and adversity passiveLeonard H. Babby | p. 343
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Adversative constructions in Even in relation to passive and permissiveAndrej L. Malchukov | p. 369
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On non-causative effects of causativity in AleutEvgeniy V. Golovko | p. 385
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Three causatives in Dogon and the overlapping of causative and passive markersVladimir A. Plungian | p. 391
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Index of languages | p. 397
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