Causal necessity, causal sufficiency, and the implications of causative verbs
Against past analyses, we propose that natural language causatives do not universally encode a single, unanalyzable 'bringing about' meaning like Dowty’s (1979) CAUSE, but instead draw on an inventory of contrasting causal dependency relations. To illustrate this claim, we focus on the Eng...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2020-06-01
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| Series: | Glossa |
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| Online Access: | https://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/497 |