Universals of causative and anticausative verb formation and the spontaneity scale
In this paper, I formulate and explain a number of universal generalizations about the formation of causative verbs (overtly marked verbs with causal meaning) and anticausative verbs (overtly marked verbs with noncausal meaning). Given the “spontaneity scale” of basic verb meanings (transitive >...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2016-12-01
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| Series: | Lingua Posnaniensis |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/linpo-2016-0009 |