Causatives and Causation: A Universal-typological PerspectiveCausatives and Causation is the first comprehensive study of causative constructions found in the world's languages. This important new research, based on a data base of more than 600 languages, not only investigates fully the richness and variety of causative types, but also presents an alternative perspective to the traditional typological approach. The new typology enables a better understanding of how the human mind cognizes causation and how this is reflected in language. Causatives and Causation is also an important attempt to integrate language typology with diachrony by constructing a diachronic model of causative affixes on the basis of this new typology. Drawing on the theoretical insight of Role and Reference Grammar, this book provides a case study of the causative constructions in Korean, providing additional support for both the proposed new typology and the diachronic model. |
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Preamble 11734 | 1 |
A typology of causative constructions | 17 |
The evolution of causative affixes | 73 |
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Abkhaz Alamblak Australian languages Australian National University Babungo basic verb Blake Canberra causative affixes causative construction causative function causative prefix causative sentence causative types causative verb caused event causee NP clausal clauses of purpose cognitive structure COMPACT type complement causative Comrie Comrie's coordination core NPs crosslinguistic diachronic diachronic model direct Dixon element of Vcause element of Veffect embedded express causation əməni-ka fact Foley Further Givón grammar grammatical relations ha-ǝss-ta Haiman implicative indirect object intransitive Jacaltec Korean Langacker 1987 language spoken lexical causative Linguistics morpheme morphological causative mother-NOM Mouton noncausative constructions noncausative verb nonimplicative Note NP density control number of core object NP original Papua New Guinea paradigm pragmatic PURP marker PURP type purposive construction R.M.W. Dixon Scause subject NP subjunctive mood subordinate clause suffix switch reference syntactic causative syntax term PURP Tigak transitive verbs type of causative typology of causative Valin Veffect verbal word order