Causatives And Transitivity (Studies in Language Companion)

Comrie, Bernard (Editor)/ Polinsky, Maria (Editor)

ISBN 10: 9027230269 / ISBN 13: 9789027230263

Published by John Benjamins Pub Co, 2000

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412 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.04 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Causatives And Transitivity (Studies in Language Companion)
• Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027230269
• ISBN 13: 9789027230263
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.78 kilograms

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Synopsis

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 component as well. In addition to general studies concerning the morpho syntactic and semantic typology and the history of causative constructions and relations to other phenomena, the following individual languages are treated in detail: Russian, English, Dutch, Svan, Even, Korean, Yukaghir, Alutor, Aleut, Haruai, Dogon, Athabaskan languages. The volume will be of interest to typologists, to other linguists interested in causative constructions and transitivity relations, and to all who are interested in the linguistic expression of causal relations.