Mbyá resultatives and the structure of causation
In Mbyá, target state resultative predicates can only be derived from inchoative verbs. This is in contrast with target state adjectival passives in better studied languages such as English, German and Greek, which can be derived from transitive causatives. I argue that the limited distribution of M...
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Open Library of Humanities
2019-12-01
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Online Access: | https://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/688 |