This chapter aims to study the prepositional marking and the postpositional marking of the recipient in the Persian non-canonical ditransitive alignments, which are associated respectively with a particular role that the recipient as topic or exhaustive focus plays in the inform…
Causatives and transitivity
by Comrie, Bernard, Polinsky, Maria
fromStudies in language companion series
Causatives and transitivity
by Comrie, Bernard, Polinsky, Maria
fromStudies in language companion series
Causatives and transitivity
by Comrie, Bernard, Polinsky, Maria
fromStudies in language companion series
Causatives and transitivity
by Comrie, Bernard, Polinsky, Maria
fromStudies in language companion series
Causatives and transitivity
by Comrie, Bernard, Polinsky, Maria
fromStudies in language companion series
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 construc…
Causatives and transitivity
by Comrie, Bernard, Polinsky, Maria
fromStudies in language companion series
