Publications

Publication details [#1719]

Brennenstuhl, Waltraud and Krystyna Wachowicz. 1976. On the pragmatics of control. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 2 : 396–405.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

verb of volition

Annotation

B. and W. introduce the notion of 'control' to explain the fact that non-human subjects take only non-volitional verbs in morphological causatives while human subjects occur with both volitional and non-volitional verbs.