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Lexical causatives and causative alternation in Basque [PDF]

Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2003
After offering a brief survey of the features of causative sentences in Basque, mainly on the basis of Dixon's (2000) criteria, the paper deals with Basque lexical causatives, which can be used as either causative or unaccusative verbs.
Beñat Oyharçabal
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Towards an analysis of the causative/non-causative alternation in Udmurt [PDF]

Acta Linguistica Hungarica, 2014
The paper studies the causative/non-causative alternation in Udmurt. I propose an analysis based on Distributed Morphology (Marantz 1984; 1997): I suggest that the causative and non-causative variants of the alternation in Udmurt are derived from roots ...
Tánczos, Orsolya
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Transitivity, Events, and Gesture: The Case of the Causative-inchoative Alternation

Open Linguistics, 2019
An increasing number of studies are being devoted to the investigation of what aspects of grammar, and of events, expressed in speech are coordinated with gesture.
Alan Cienki
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Stativity in the Causative Alternation? New Questions and a New Variant

Open Linguistics, 2019
This paper discusses whether capacity to license an internal argument and eventivity are default properties of so-called change-of-state verbs.
Maria Eugenia Mangialavori Rasia
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Semantic roles and the causative-anticausative alternation: evidence from French change-of-state verbs

Linguistics
Change-of-state verbs are heterogeneous with respect to their occurrence in the causative-anticausative alternation. While some of them are never used as anticausatives (e.g., destroy), others seem to largely favor the anticausative form (e.g., wither ...
Steffen Heidinger
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The noncausal/causal alternation in Swahili

Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2022
Haspelmath (1993) investigates types of noncausal/causal alternation and examines 31 verb pairs in 21 languages, including Swahili, a Bantu language spoken in East Africa.
Nobuko Yoneda
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Cross-linguistic sources of anticausative markers

Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads, 2022
The (anti)causative alternation, that is, the alternation whereby languages contrast intransitive verbs expressing spontaneous events with transitive ones expressing externally caused events, has been the object of extensive language-specific and cross ...
Guglielmo Inglese
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Basque impersonals in comparison

Linguistics, 2022
The Basque impersonal is a detransitivized construction that resembles middles, passives and impersonals. In this construction, the thematic object is the grammatical subject, which bears absolutive case and triggers absolutive agreement, and the ...
Fernández Beatriz, Berro Ane
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On noncausal/causal alternations in Tima (Nuba Mountains, Sudan)

Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2022
Tima, a language spoken in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan, uses three derivation markers (with various allomorphs) to either increase or decrease the valency of the verb. Middle voice and antipassive marking are used to reduce the valency. Causative marking
Gertrud Schneider-Blum
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Grammatical encoding of agency in Asturian middle constructions

Glossa, 2021
Middle-passive constructions in Asturian –a Romance language spoken in the diglossic region of Asturias, in northern Spain– appear to optionally allow the occurrence of the reflexive pronoun se in them (esti pan esmigáya(se) fácil; ‘this bread crumbles ...
Imanol Suárez-Palma
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