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Vol. 7:1 (2000) ► pp.155–168
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Maarten Lemmens. Lexical Perspectives on Transitivity and Ergativity. Causative constructions in English
Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1998. ISBN 90 272 3671 2 Xii + 268 pp.

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Published online: 29 September 2001
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