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Publication details [#13217]

Voorst, Jan van. 1993. Against a composite analysis of certain causative constructions. In Nuyts, Jan and Eric Pederson, eds. Perspectives on Language and Conceptualization. Editions de l'Université de Bruxelles. pp. 145–165.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Language as a subject

Annotation

This study proposes an analysis of why only certain transitive constructions allow an inchoative alternate, pointing to the language-specific semantic definition as a means of explanation.