Table of contents
List of tables
List of figuresxvi
Acknowledgementsxvii
1. Introduction
2. Corpus linguistics and theory
3. English causative constructions: Collecting the data
4. Causative constructions in action: The realisation of the action chain
5. The syntax and semantics of causative constructions: The Principle of No Synonymy
6. Defining the causative prototype
7. Lexical co-occurrence in causative constructions
8. Collexemes in the effect slot
9. The influence of register on causative constructions
10. Causative constructions and foreign language teaching
11. Conclusion
References
Appendix 1. Elicitation test
Appendix 2. Distinctive syntactic and semantic features of causative constructions
Appendix 3. Most frequent syntactic and semantic features of causative constructions
Author index
Subject index
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