The grammar of causative constructions / / edited by Masayoshi Shibatani.

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Superior document:Syntax and semantics ; 6
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Place / Publishing House:New York : : Academic Press,, [1976]
©1976
Year of Publication:1976
Language:English
Series:Syntax and semantics ; 6.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Masayoshi Shibatani
  • The Grammar of Causative Constructions: A Conspectus / Masayoshi Shibatani
  • Semantic Causative Types / Leonard Talmy
  • Remarks on What Can Cause What / James D. Mccawley
  • The Precyclic Nature of Predicate Raising / Frederick J. Newmeyer
  • Where Do Instrumental NPs Come from? / Richard H. Wojcik
  • On Experiencer Causatives / Noriko A. Mccawley
  • Idioms and Lexicalization in English / James T. Heringer
  • The Iffyness of Transitive Verbs / Robert Binnick
  • On Composite Predication in English / Michael B. Kac
  • The Syntax of Causative Constructions: Cross-Language Similarities and Divergences / Bernard Comrie
  • Lexical and Nonlexical Causatives in Bantu / Robin Cooper
  • Some Constraints on Bantu Causativization / Talmy Givón
  • On the Semantics of the Causative Construction in Hindi-Urdu / Yamuna Kachru
  • On the Hungarian Causative Verb and Its Syntax / Robert Hetzron
  • Some Constraints on Turkish Causativization / Karl E. Zimmer
  • Lahu Causative Constructions: Case Hierarchies and the Morphology/Syntax Cycle in a Tibeto-Burman Perspective / James A. Matisoff
  • The Causative Mechanism in Jinghpaw / La Raw Maran And John M. Clifton
  • The Concept of Inadvertence in Thai Periphrastic Causative Constructions / Rasami Vichit-Vadakan
  • Development of the Causative in Mandarin Chinese: Interaction of Diachronic Processes in Syntax / Charles N. Li and Sandra A. Thompson
  • Index / Masayoshi Shibatani.