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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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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Collectivité auteur: Rice Symposium on Linguistics
Autres auteurs: Shibatani, Masayoshi
Format: Électronique Actes de congrès eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2002.
Collection:Typological studies in language ; v. 48.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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 synchronically (e.g., on a semantic map) and diachronically (e.g., through grammaticalization processes), the volume affords a comprehensive up-to-date perspective on the perennial issues in the grammar of causation such as the distribution of competing causative morphemes, the meaning distinctions among them, and the overall form-meaning correlation. Morphosyntactic interactions of causatives with other phenomena such as incorporation and applicativization receive focused attention as such basic issues as the semantic distinction between direct and indirect causation and the typology of causative constructions.
Description:Based on the 8th Biennial Rice Symposium on Linguistics held in 2000.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (xvi, 549 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027297228
9027297223
ISSN:0167-7373 ;