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Lexical causatives and causative alternation in Basque

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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Against the Psych Causative Alternation in Polish [PDF]

Studies in Polish Linguistics, 2019
The paper examines Object Experiencer (henceforth, OE)/Subject Experiencer (henceforth, SE) verb alternations in Polish in order to check whether Polish exhibits the causative/anticausative alternation in the psych domain (psych causative alternation of Alexiadou and Iordăchioaia 2014, henceforth A&I 2014).
Bożena Rozwadowska, Anna Bondaruk
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Expanding the causative alternation [PDF]

Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 2017
AbstractThe causative-inchoative alternation has been a subject of much debate. It might also be a case where variation patterns that escape existing typological descriptions provide a new perspective on the problem. We analyze the variability and systematicity of alternative argument structure realizations, together with corresponding aspectual/event ...
Mangialavori Rasia, Maria Eugenia, Eugenia Mangialavori Rasia   +1 more
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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 and not from each other.
Tánczos, Orsolya
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Inchoative-causative alternation in Persian [PDF]

, 2015
The present study mainly aims to describe the mechanics of causative-inchoative alternation in modern Persian as well as the causative structure of its verbal system. In this scope, we provide a brief description of the phrase structure of the modern Persian and discuss its main causative-inchoative codification strategies: morphological, lexical and ...
Maxime Seveleu-Dubrovnik
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Causative-ergative alternation in Brazilian Portuguese

Matraga, 2009
This paper is concerned with the conditions that govern variation in causative-ergative constructions in Brazilian Portuguese. Following research by Whitaker-Franchi (1989) and Levin & Rappaport-Hovav (1995), those conditions are reformulated based on ...
Larissa Ciríaco, Márcia Cançado
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Directionality of the rise of the causative/inchoative alternation with verbs suffixed with -ate, -ize, and -(i)fy

Studia Linguistica
This study examines the historical development of the causative/inchoative alternation licensed by English verbs ending in -ate, -ize, and -(i)fy. While lexicalist theories (see, among others, Hale and Keyser 1986, Jackendoff 1990, Levin and Rappaport ...
Katarzyna Sówka-Pietraszewska
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The causative alternation in Italian: A case study in the parallel architecture of grammar

In this article I discuss corpus evidence from Italian which suggests that the causative alternation cannot be reduced to a single principle, be it semantic, syntactic orat the interface between these two levels of analysis. I argue that the boundariesof the causative alternation are established in grammar through (i) the acquisi-tion of inchoative and
Bentley, Delia; id_orcid
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Attraction or differentiation: diachronic changes in the causative alternation of Chinese change of state verbs

Cognitive Linguistics
This study examines the interplay of attraction and differentiation through the diachronic encoding of causative alternations in Chinese. A corpus-based analysis is conducted to profile the use of two Change of State verbs (COS verbs), pò ‘break’ and kāi
Du Jing, Zuo Shan, Li Fuyin Thomas
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Alternate day corticosteroid causes alternate day hyperglycaemia [PDF]

Postgraduate Medical Journal, 1987
Summary Patients taking alternate day corticosteroid treatment have greater impairment of glucose tolerance on the corticosteroid day than on the alternate day. Allowance for this must be made in the detection and management of diabetes mellitus in these patients.
M A, Greenstone, A B, Shaw
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