Dispositional causation
There are a number of phenomena where an apparent animacy requirement exceptionally admits some inanimate causers as felicitous. In this paper I argue that these should be explained not by a syntactically visible animacy feature but rather by a “what-can-cause-what” approach. In this kind of approac...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2018-12-01
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| Series: | Glossa |
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| Online Access: | https://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/507 |