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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2002.
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| Series: | Typological studies in language ;
v. 48. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.