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The grammar of causation and interpersonal manipulation /

This volume presents fifteen original papers dealing with various aspects of causative constructions ranging from morphology to semantics with emphasis on language data from Central and South America. Informed by a better understanding of how different constructions are positioned both synchronicall...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Rice Symposium on Linguistics
Otros Autores: Shibatani, Masayoshi
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2002.
Colección:Typological studies in language ; v. 48.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The Grammar of Causation and Interpersonal Manipulation; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication; Table of contents; Preface; Appreciation; Abbreviations; Introduction; Cooperation and interpersonal manipulation in the society of intimates; Verbs of interpersonal causality and the folk theory of mind and behavior; The causative continuum; Causation, constructions, and language ecology: An example from French; Tarascan causatives and event complexity; Some constraints on Cora causative constructions; Olutec causatives and applicatives; On some causative doublets in Classical Nahuatl.