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
Fusing insights from cognitive grammar, systemic-functional grammar and Government & Binding, the present work elaborates and refines Davidse's view that the English grammar of lexical causatives is governed by the transitive and ergative paradigms, two distinct models of causat…
