Causatives and Transitivity

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CAUSATIVES AND TRANSITIVITY
Editorial page
Title page
Copyright page
Table of contents
Preface
REFERENCES
The inflectional category of voice: towards a more rigorous definition
1. The problem stated
2. The theoretical framework: The Meaning-Text theory
3. Underlying concepts
4. The concept of voice and particular voices
5. Open problems related to voice
voice as a supercategory
5.1 Monovalent verbs
5.2 Trivalent verbs
6. Two categories closely related to voice
6.1 Transitivation
6.1.1 General remarks
6.1.2 Concept of transitivation
6.1.3 Transitivation as an "imperfect" category
6.1.4 The status of the 'neuter' grammeme
6.1.5 Illustrations of transitivation
6.1.6 "Antipassive
6.2 Affectedness
7. Conclusions
7.1 Complex voice-like categories
7.2 Impurity of actual voices
7.3 Fickle differences between categories
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABBREVIATIONS
NOTES
REFERENCES
Transitivity increase in Athabaskan languages
1. Introduction
2. Transitivity indicators
3. Pathways of transitivity increase
3.1 Causativization
3.2 Possessivization
3.3 Agentivization
3.4 A ction perfectivization/patient affection
3.5 Action intensification
3.6 Comparative
4. Are transitivity indicators arbitrary?
5. Evaluation of results
6. Conclusions
NOTES
REFERENCES
Transitive and causative in the Slavic lexicon: Evidence from Russian
1. Introduction
2. Text frequencies of valence types
3. Inter-text variation in valence frequency
4. Frequencies of aspect categories in valence classes
5. Inter-text variation in aspect frequency
6. Lexical frequency
7. Lexical frequency of roots
8. Lexical derivations
9. Diachronic change
10. Conclusions
NOTES
REFERENCES
SOURCES
More on the typology of inchoative/causative verb alternations
1. Formal and semantic basic-derived relationships
2. Formal types of inchoative/causative verb pairs
3. Semantic restrictions on inchoative/causative verb pairs
4. The sample
5. Difficulties with the formal classification of inchoative/causative verb pairs
6. Typological characterization of the languages
7. Different preferences for the direction of derivation in different verbs
8. Conceptual simplicity as the basis of semantic basic-derived relationships
NOTES
REFERENCES
APPENDIX
The "second causative": A typological sketch
1. Introduction
2. Morphology
2.1
2.2 Morphological productivity, regularity, and doublet forms
2.3 Double affix reduction
2.4 "Empty" causative markers and "one-and-a-half causatives".
2.5 The triple causative and causatives of higher degrees
3. Semantics
4. Hierarchy of causatives
5. Syntax
5.1 The marking of the causee
5.2
5.3 Adverbial scope
6. Some remarks on diachrony
NOTES
REFERENCES
Make" and the semantic origins of causativity: a typological study
1. Introduction
2. Grammatical uses of "make"-verbs
3. How does "make" so frequently acquire a causative meaning?
4. The semantic primitives of causation and the expression of causativity in the world's languages
5. Conclusion
NOTES
REFERENCES
Causatives and causality: towards a semantic typology of causal relations
1. Introduction
2. Encoding of causative relations
3. Causation and argumentation
4. Causation and other types of implicative relations
5. Causation and control
6. Causation and estimation
7. Conclusion
REFERENCES
Causee and patient in the causative of transitive: Coding conflict or doubling of grammatical relations?
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical preliminaries
2.1 Coding options
2.2 Coding conflict and syntactic doubling
2.3 Approach
3. Korean
3.1 Data
3.1.1 General
3.1.2 The biclausal vs. monoclausal analysis of periphrastic causatives
3.2 Direct Object properties in Korean
3.3 Other biaccusative constructions
3.3.1 Possessor Ascension clause
3.3.2 Ditransitive clause
3.3.3 Benefactive Advancement clause
3.3.4 Clause with the adverbial accusative
3.4 Causatives: Syntactic analysis
3.4.1 Causee referent and patient referent are hierarchically similar
3.4.2 Causee referent is hierarchically higher than the patient referent
3.4.3 Other extraction tests
3.4.4 Conclusion on syntax
3.5 Biaccusative constructions: Semantic analysis
3.5.1 Causee: Accusative vs. dative marking
3.5.2 Causative of transitives
3.5.3 Other biaccusative constructions
4. Dutch
4.1 Data
4.1.1 Causatives: arguments for monoclausality
4.1.2 Causatives of transitives
4.2 Other coding conflict constructions
4.3 Direct Object properties in Dutch
4.4 Coding conflict constructions: A syntactic analysis
4.4.1 Grammatical relations in the causative construction
4.4.2 Grammatical relations in the ditransitive clause
4.4.3 Causee/Recipient: Indirect Object or a non-term?
4.5 Causatives: Semantic and communicative analysis
4.6 Conclusion on Dutch
5. Word order and passive in coding conflict causatives
5.1 Coding conflict and word order
5.1.1 Agent-before-Patient orders
5.1.2 Patient-before-Agent orders
5.2 Passivization, extraction, and suppression
5.2.1 Relevant notions
5.2.2 Suppression in coding conflict constructions
5.2.3 Problem
5.2.4 The functional view of the problem
5.2.5 Processing of extraction, passivization, and suppression
6. Conclusion
NOTES
REFERENCES
Bystander voice in English: A generalization masked in some versions of theta theory
1. A syntactic generalization split by theta roles
2. Non-auxiliary behavior
so-called "semi-auxiliaries
3. Bystander Voice in Romance?
4. Conclusions
4.1 A Bystander Voice paradigm
4.2 Need for a reconsideration of theta roles
4.3 Towards a functional-cultural explanation
NOTES
REFERENCES
Causative constructions in Svan: further evidence for role domination
1. Introduction
2. Role vs. reference domination in causativization
3. Causative constructions in Svan
3.1 Preliminary remarks
3.2 Svan data
3.3 Interpretation
4. Other evidence of role domination in Svan
4.1 Verbal classification and case-marking
4.2 Control properties
4.3 Conclusions
NOTES
REFERENCES
The causative in Yukaghir
1. Introduction
2. Causative suffixes
2.1 Correlative pairs
2.2 Morphological (regular) causatives
2.2.1 The first causative
2.2.2 The second causative.
2.3 Lexical causatives
3. Causative vs. multiplicative/distributive
4. The case of the causee
NOTES
REFERENCES
Alutor causatives, noun incorporation,and the Mirror Principle
1. Introduction
1.1 Preamble
1.2 General information on Alutor
2. Forming causatives in Alutor
3. The syntax of the morphological causative in Alutor
4. Causativization and incorporation
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Incorporation in Alutor: General
4.3 Causatives and incorporation in Alutor
4.3.1 Incorporation in causatives: General rules
4.3.2 Causatives from intransitive verbs
4.3.3 Double causatives
4.3.4 Causatives from transitive verbs
NOTES
REFERENCES
Some remarks on causatives and transitivity in Haruai
1. Introduction
2. Causative of intransitive verbs
3. Causative of transitive verbs
4. Reflexives and reciprocals
5. Conclusion
NOTES
REFERENCE
Through the looking-glass, and how causativos look there
1. Introduction
2. Causatives and their asymmetric structure
3. Causatives and their looking-glass counterparts
4. On Russian consecutives
4.1 Verbs in do-...-sja
4.2 Other candidates for consecutivesin Russian
4.3 Verbs with the prefix za-
5. Consecutives and some adjacent categories
5.1 Consecutives and Aktionsarten
5.2 Consecutivesand perfect
5.3 Some relevant criteria for discerning consecutives from other categories
6. Some parameters for a typological classification of consecutives
6.1 Semantics
6.2 Diathesis types
7. Conclusion
NOTES
REFERENCES
Hybrid causative constructions: Benefactive causative and adversity passive
1. Introduction: The benefactive causative
2. Causative, passive, and voice
3. Canonical passivization
4. Canonical causativization
5. Hybrid causativization: The benefactive causative in Russian
6. The adversity passive in Japanese
NOTES
REFERENCES
Adversative constructions in Even in relation to passive and permissive
1. Introduction
2. Grammar note
2.1 Nominal morphology
2.2 Verbal morphology
2.3 The syntax of causative constructions
3. The basic types of adversative constructions
4. A derivational approach to the analysis of ADVCs
4.1 Arguments for and against the passive analysis of ADCs
4.2 Arguments for and against a causative analysis of ADCs
5. A definitional approach to the analysis of ADCs
6. Some typological implications: Even adversative and the correlation between passive and causative
NOTES
REFERENCES
On non-causative effects of causativity in Aleut
1. Introduction
2. Overlapping of causative and aspectual meanings
3. Conclusion
NOTES
REFERENCES
Three causatives in Dogon and the overlapping of causative and passive markers
1. Introductory
2. Causative markers
2.1 The suffix -nd-
2.2 The suffix -r-
2.3 The suffix -mò
NOTES
REFERENCES
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