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This thesis examines Arabic and Hebrew causatives and their implications to the morphology-syntax interface and aspecuality. There are two types of causatives in Arabic and Hebrew: verbal and de-adjectival causatives. It is argued that Li's Lexical Mapping Hypothesis (LMH) (fort…

One of the important issues in current linguistics involves locality conditions governing possible antecedents of reflexives and other anaphors. The various proposals have sought for a universal principle to account for language-specific differences. My dissertation aims to reso…

Recent research has claimed that the presence and/or absence of a morphological marking of causative/inchoative verbs in the learners' respective native language results in difficulty in the acquisition of these verbs in languages such as English, Spanish, and Turkish (Montrul 1…