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The Many Meanings of the Japanese Causative
Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 2020 Causative sentences have long been a topic of research in Japanese linguistics due to the different meanings expressed by the use of the -(s)aseru inflection forming the causative verbal form.
Petra Jaklin
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Licensing of Instrumental Case in Hindi/Urdu Causatives
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2011 In this paper, I revisit the licensing and interpretation of instrumental case-marked nominals in Hindi/Urdu causative constructions to argue against the hypothesis that the se-marked phrase corresponds to a demoted agent.
Gillian Ramchand
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Cinque's functional verbs in French [PDF]
, 2007 This article focuses on the syntax of a number of subcategories of verb in French which are compatible with a following bare infinitive and which express various kinds of grammatical tense, mood, modality, aspect and voice, as well as such (more lexical?
Rowlett, P
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Transitivity Alternations in North Sámi
Open Linguistics, 2016 In North Sámi, verbs that form transitivity alternation pairs are always distinguished morphologically. However, even if morphology is seen as a reflex of the syntax, the syntactic structure underlying transitive and intransitive verbs in North Sámi ...
Julien Marit
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Curatives in the Old-Lithuanian Bible translations
Vilnius University Open Series, 2021 The subject of the paper is curatives, a special type of causative verbs in Lithuanian, in the Bible translations by Johannes Bretke (1579–1590), Samuel Boguslaw Chylinski (1660), Samuel Bythner (1701), Philipp Ruhig (1727) and Juozapas Arnulfas ...
Paweł Brudzyński
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Epenthesis, mutation, and structure preservation in the Shona causative
Studies in African Linguistics, 1993 In Shona (Bantu: Zimbabwe), the causative fonn of a verb is fonned in one of two ways: either with the suffix -is-/-es- or by changing the root final consonant to a corresponding coronal continuant.
Scott Myers
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Narrowing the wingless-2 mutation to a 227 kb candidate region on chicken chromosome 12. [PDF]
, 2018 Wingless-2 (wg-2) is an autosomal recessive mutation in chicken that results in an embryonic lethal condition. Affected individuals exhibit a multisystem syndrome characterized by absent wings, truncated legs, and craniofacial, kidney, and feather ...
Cheng, HH +7 more
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A cross-linguistic comparison of clausal embedding with causatives
IsoglossIn Italian, causatives are expressed through a periphrasis make + infinitival V. When the embedded verb is transitive, the embedded subject is generally introduced by a to/by preposition.
Paolo Lorusso, Linda Badan
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The Syntax of European Portuguese Resultatives
Isogloss, 2022 This study attempts to propose a syntactic distinction between true resultatives and pseudo-resultatives and to provide an overview of the resultative constructions in European Portuguese (EP).
Jiaojiao Yao
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Non-linguistic Conditions for Causativization as a Linguistic Attractor
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 An attractor, in complex systems theory, is any state that is more easily or more often entered or acquired than departed or lost; attractor states therefore accumulate more members than non-attractors, other things being equal.
Johanna Nichols +2 more
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