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UNINA9910967126803321 |
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Titolo |
Causatives and transitivity / / edited by Bernard Comrie, Maria Polinsky |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia [Pa.], : J. Benjamins, 1993 |
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ISBN |
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9786613092700 |
90-272-8586-1 |
1-283-09270-0 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (412 p.) |
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Collana |
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Studies in language companion series, , 0165-7763 ; ; v. 23 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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ComrieBernard <1947-> |
PolinskyMaria |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Causative (Linguistics) |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Transitivity |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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CAUSATIVES AND TRANSITIVITY; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; The inflectional category of voice: towards a more rigorous definition; Transitivity increase in Athabaskan languages; Transitive and causative in the Slavic lexicon: Evidence from Russian; More on the typology of inchoative/causative verb alternations; The ""second causative"": A typological sketch; ""Make"" and the semantic origins of causativity: a typological study; Causatives and causality: towards a semantic typology of causal relations |
Causee and patient in the causative of transitive: Coding conflict or doubling of grammatical relations?Bystander voice in English: A generalization masked in some versions of theta theory; Causative constructions in Svan: further evidence for role domination; The causative in Yukaghir; Alutor causatives, noun incorporation,and the Mirror Principle; Some remarks on causatives and transitivity in Haruai; Through the looking-glass, and how causativos look there; Hybrid causative constructions: Benefactive causative and adversity passive |
Adversative constructions in Even in relation to passive and permissiveOn non-causative effects of causativity in Aleut; Three causatives in Dogon and the overlapping of causative and passive markers; Index of Languages; The series Studies in Language |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This volume brings together 18 typological studies of causative and related constructions (transitivity, voice, other expressions of cause) by 19 scholars from North America, Western Europe, and Russia. The inspirations for the volume is the pioneering work on causative constructions by the Leningrad Typology Group; several of the contributors have close connections to the charter members of that group, others have appreciated this work from a distance. The volume as a whole is based on the concept of causative constructions as embracing both morphology and syntax, with an important semantic c |
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