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Publication details [#6626]
McCawley, James D. 1976. Remarks on what can cause what. In Shibatani, Masayoshi, ed. Syntax and semantics 6: The grammar of causative constructions. Academic Press. pp. 117–129.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
An informal exploration of the notions of causation that are involved in the meanings of English sentences, with some attention to the question of what kind of things the various notions of causation relate with each other.