Description |
1 online resource (viii, 324 pages) : illustrations. |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Series |
Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today,
0166-0829 ; v. 126
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Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 126.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-316) and indexes. |
Contents |
The Syntax of (Anti- )Causatives; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; Chapter 1. The morphological patterns of anticausatives and their interpretation; Chapter 2. The dative causer construction; Chapter 3. Datives and changes of state; Chapter 4. The causative alternation; Chapter 5. The syntax of marked anticausatives: Part I; Chapter 6. Generic middles; Chapter 7. The syntax of marked anticausatives: Part II; References; Index of names; Index of subjects; The series Linguistik Aktuell. |
Summary |
This book develops an approach to the causative alternation that assumes syntactic event decomposition and a configurational theta theory. It is couched within the framework of the Minimalist Program and, especially, within Distributed Morphology. Central to the work is the syntax and semantics of canonical external arguments of causative verbs as well as of oblique causers and causative PPs in the context of anticausative verbs in different languages such as Germanic, Romance, Balkan, and Caucasian languages. The book also develops a new account of the origin and nature of the morphological m. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Causative (Linguistics)
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Causative (Linguistics) |
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Grammar, Comparative and general.
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Grammar, Comparative and general. |
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Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Schäfer, Florian. Syntax of (anti- )causatives. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, ©2008 9789027255099 9027255091 (DLC) 2008008200 (OCoLC)202548125 |
ISBN |
9789027290700 (electronic book) |
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9027290709 (electronic book) |
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128210571X |
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9781282105713 |
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9789027255099 |
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9027255091 |
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