Review published in:
Studies in Language
Vol. 24:3 (2000) ► pp. 683–694
Book review

Maarten Lemmens. Lexical Perspectives on Transitivity and Ergativity: Causative Constructions in English
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 166]. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1998. xii + 268 pp.

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| University of Tasmania
Published online: 16 March 2001
https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.24.3.08pee
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