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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: Rice Symposium on Linguistics
Other Authors: Shibatani, Masayoshi
Format: Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2002.
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.