The Grammar of Causative Constructions
Author: Masayoshi Shibatani
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-01-13
Total Pages: 517
ISBN-13: 9004368841
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Masayoshi Shibatani
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-01-13
Total Pages: 517
ISBN-13: 9004368841
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Masayoshi Shibatani
Publisher: Syntax and Semantics
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9789004368545
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Peter Cole
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-01-13
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9004368876
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Gaëtanelle Gilquin
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2010-03-24
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9027288496
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →English causative constructions with cause, get, have and make are often mistakenly presented as (quasi-)synonymous and more or less interchangeable. This book demonstrates the value of corpus linguistics in identifying the syntactic, semantic, lexical and stylistic features that are distinctive for each of these constructions. It also underlines the usefulness of providing corpus studies with a solid theoretical foundation by showing how corpus linguistics can be fruitfully combined with cognitive linguistics, which is used both as a starting point for the analysis (top-down approach) and as a framework within which to interpret the corpus results (bottom-up approach). From a methodological point of view, the study illustrates the complementarity of corpus and elicitation data, and offers tools and methods that could be used to investigate other syntactic structures. Finally, the book also has a pedagogical dimension in that it examines how the research findings can be applied to foreign language teaching.
Author: Michael Daniel
Publisher: Language Science Press
Published: 2019-10-23
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 3961102082
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is an investigation into the grammar of Mehweb (Dargwa, East Caucasian also known as Nakh-Daghestanian) based on several years of team fieldwork. Mehweb is spoken in one village community in Daghestan, Russia, with a population of some 800 people, In many ways, Mehweb is a typical East Caucasian language: it has a rich inventory of consonants; an extensive system of spatial forms in nouns and converbs and volitional forms in verbs; pervasive gender-number agreement; and ergative alignment in case marking and in gender agreement. It is also a typical language of the Dargwa branch, with symmetrical verb inflection in the imperfective and perfective paradigm and extensive use of spatial encoding for experiencers. Although Mehweb is clearly close to the northern varieties of Dargwa, it has been long isolated from the main body of Dargwa varieties by speakers of Avar and Lak. As a result of both independent internal evolution and contact with its neighbours, Mehweb developed some deviant properties, including accusatively aligned egophoric agreement, a split in the feminine class, and the typologically rare grammatical categories of verificative and apprehensive. But most importantly, Mehweb is where our friends live.
Author: Marcel den Dikken
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1995-03-16
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 0195358007
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Particles are words that do not change their form through inflection and do not fit easily into the established system of parts of speech. Examples include the negative particle "not," the infinitival particle "to" (as in "to go"), and do and let in "do tell me" and "let's go." Particles investigates the constraints on the distribution and placement of verbal particles. A proper understanding of these constraints yields insight into the structure of various secondary predicative constructions. Starting out from a detailed analysis of complex particle constructions, den Dikken brings forth accounts of triadic constructions and Dative Shift, and the relationship between dative and transitive causative constructions--all of them built on the basic structural template proposed from complex particle constructions. Drawing on data from Norwegian, English, Dutch, German, West Flemish, and other languages, this book will interest a wide audience of students and specialists.
Author: Robert M. W. Dixon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-02-10
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 0521660394
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Distinguished scholars examine the phenomena of passives and causatives in languages from around the world.
Author: Marcel den Dikken
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 0195091345
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this title, the author investigates the distribution and placement of verbal particles, which are words that do not change their form through inflection and do not fit easily into the established system of parts of speech. He analyses data from Norwegian, English, Dutch, German, and other languages.
Author: Bernard Comrie
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1993-01-01
Total Pages: 413
ISBN-13: 9027230269
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume brings together 18 typological studies of causative and related constructions (transitivity, voice, other expressions of cause) by 19 scholars from North America, Western Europe, and Russia. The inspirations for the volume is the pioneering work on causative constructions by the Leningrad Typology Group; several of the contributors have close connections to the charter members of that group, others have appreciated this work from a distance. The volume as a whole is based on the concept of causative constructions as embracing both morphology and syntax, with an important semantic component as well. In addition to general studies concerning the morpho syntactic and semantic typology and the history of causative constructions and relations to other phenomena, the following individual languages are treated in detail: Russian, English, Dutch, Svan, Even, Korean, Yukaghir, Alutor, Aleut, Haruai, Dogon, Athabaskan languages. The volume will be of interest to typologists, to other linguists interested in causative constructions and transitivity relations, and to all who are interested in the linguistic expression of causal relations.