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This book explores the wealth of evidence from early Indo-Aryan for the existence of transitive nouns and adjectives, a rare linguistic phenomenon which, according to some categorizations of word classes, should not occur. John Lowe shows that most transitive nouns and adjective…
Causatives and transitivity
by Comrie, Bernard, Polinsky, Maria
fromStudies in language companion series
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Type: Book
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
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Type: Book
