Causatives And Causation

Author : Jae Jung Song
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317888437

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Causatives and Causation by Jae Jung Song Pdf

Causatives and Causation is the first comprehensive study of causative constructions found in the world's languages. This important new research, based on a data base of more than 600 languages, not only investigates fully the richness and variety of causative types, but also presents an alternative perspective to the traditional typological approach. The new typology enables a better understanding of how the human mind cognizes causation and how this is reflected in language. Causatives and Causation is also an important attempt to integrate language typology with diachrony by constructing a diachronic model of causative affixes on the basis of this new typology. Drawing on the theoretical insight of Role and Reference Grammar, this book provides a case study of the causative constructions in Korean, providing additional support for both the proposed new typology and the diachronic model. It also examines the pragmatic foundations of causatives, an important but previously unexplored area of study.

Author : Masayoshi Shibatani
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027229538

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The Grammar of Causation and Interpersonal Manipulation by Masayoshi Shibatani Pdf

This volume presents fifteen original papers dealing with various aspects of causative constructions ranging from morphology to semantics with emphasis on language data from Central and South America. Informed by a better understanding of how different constructions are positioned both synchronically (e.g., on a semantic map) and diachronically (e.g., through grammaticalization processes), the volume affords a comprehensive up-to-date perspective on the perennial issues in the grammar of causation such as the distribution of competing causative morphemes, the meaning distinctions among them, and the overall form-meaning correlation. Morphosyntactic interactions of causatives with other phenomena such as incorporation and applicativization receive focused attention as such basic issues as the semantic distinction between direct and indirect causation and the typology of causative constructions.

Author : Bernard Comrie,Maria Polinsky
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027230263

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Causatives and Transitivity by Bernard Comrie,Maria Polinsky Pdf

This volume brings together 18 typological studies of causative and related constructions (transitivity, voice, other expressions of cause) by 19 scholars from North America, Western Europe, and Russia. The inspirations for the volume is the pioneering work on causative constructions by the Leningrad Typology Group; several of the contributors have close connections to the charter members of that group, others have appreciated this work from a distance. The volume as a whole is based on the concept of causative constructions as embracing both morphology and syntax, with an important semantic component as well. In addition to general studies concerning the morpho syntactic and semantic typology and the history of causative constructions and relations to other phenomena, the following individual languages are treated in detail: Russian, English, Dutch, Svan, Even, Korean, Yukaghir, Alutor, Aleut, Haruai, Dogon, Athabaskan languages. The volume will be of interest to typologists, to other linguists interested in causative constructions and transitivity relations, and to all who are interested in the linguistic expression of causal relations.

Author : Bridget Copley,Fabienne Martin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199672073

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Causation in Grammatical Structures by Bridget Copley,Fabienne Martin Pdf

This volume grew out of a conference called "Forces in Grammatical Structures" that was held in Paris in 2007 -- Page x.

Author : Masayoshi Shibatani
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004368842

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The Grammar of Causative Constructions by Masayoshi Shibatani Pdf

Author : Bridget Copley,Fabienne Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199672080

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Causation in Grammatical Structures by Bridget Copley,Fabienne Martin Pdf

This book brings together research on the topic of causation from experts in the fields of linguistics, philosophy, and psychology. It seeks to arrive at a more sophisticated understanding both of how causal concepts are expressed in causal meanings, and how those meanings in turn are organized into structures. Chapters address some of the most exciting current issues in the field, including the relata of causal relations; the representation of defeasible causation within verb phrases and at the level of modality; the difference between direct and indirect causal chains; and the representation of these chains in syntax.The book examines data from a wide variety of languages, such as Tohono O'odham, Finnish, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Hindi, and Karachay-Balkar, and will be of interest to syntacticians and semanticists, as well as psycholinguists and philosophers, from graduate level upwards.

Author : Elitzur A. Bar-Asher Siegal,Nora Boneh
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030343088

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Perspectives on Causation by Elitzur A. Bar-Asher Siegal,Nora Boneh Pdf

This book explores relationships and maps out intersections between discussions on causation in three scientific disciplines: linguistics, philosophy, and psychology. The book is organized in five thematic parts, investigating connections between philosophical and linguistic studies of causation; presenting novel methodologies for studying the representation of causation; tackling central issues in syntactic and semantic representation of causal relations; and introducing recent advances in philosophical thinking on causation. Beyond its thematic organization, readers will find several recurring topics throughout this book, such as the attempt to reduce causality to other non-causal terms; causal pluralism vs. one all-encompassing account for causation; causal relations pertaining to the mental as opposed to the physical realm, and more. This collection also lays the foundation for questioning whether it is possible to evaluate available philosophical approaches to causation against the variety of linguistic phenomena ranging across diverse lexical and grammatical items, such as bound morphemes, prepositions, connectives, and verbs. Above all, it lays the groundwork for considering whether the fruits of the psychological-cognitive study of the perception of causal relations may contribute to linguistic and philosophical studies, and whether insights from linguistics can benefit the other two disciplines.

Author : Prashant Pardeshi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004292529

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A Functional Account of Marathi's Voice Phenomena by Prashant Pardeshi Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive account of the formal and semantic aspects of the two most prominent voice phenomena in Marathi, viz. the passive and the causative in the functional-typological framework.

Author : Alexandra Aikhenvald,R.M.W. Dixon
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004207684

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Language at Large by Alexandra Aikhenvald,R.M.W. Dixon Pdf

The volume brings together important essays on syntax and semantics by Aikhenvald and Dixon. It focusses on topics in linguistic typology, the analysis of previously undescribed languages and issues in the grammar and lexicography of English.

Author : Mercedes Tubino Blanco
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027286598

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Causatives in Minimalism by Mercedes Tubino Blanco Pdf

This monograph studies issues of current minimalist concern, such as whether differences in the expression of argument and syntactic structure can all be attributed to the parameterization of specific functional heads. In particular, this book studies in-depth the extent to which variation in the expression of causation, available both intra- and crosslinguistically, can be accounted for by appealing only to the microparameterization of the causative head, Cause, as previously argued for by linguists such as Pylkkänen. It concludes that the microparameterization of Cause may explain some major characteristics associated with causatives, but it cannot be regarded as the only explanation behind variation in these structures. The book includes relevant discussion on argument structure and looks in detail at languages, such as the Uto-Aztecan Hiaki, that have not received much attention before. It is mostly intended for an audience interested in theoretical approaches to argument structure and variation.

Author : Mercedes Tubino Blanco
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027255624

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Causatives in Minimalism by Mercedes Tubino Blanco Pdf

This monograph studies issues of current minimalist concern, such as whether differences in the expression of argument and syntactic structure can all be attributed to the parameterization of specific functional heads. In particular, this book studies in-depth the extent to which variation in the expression of causation, available both intra- and crosslinguistically, can be accounted for by appealing only to the microparameterization of the causative head, Cause, as previously argued for by linguists such as Pylkkanen. It concludes that the microparameterization of Cause may explain some major characteristics associated with causatives, but it cannot be regarded as the only explanation behind variation in these structures. The book includes relevant discussion on argument structure and looks in detail at languages, such as the Uto-Aztecan Hiaki, that have not received much attention before. It is mostly intended for an audience interested in theoretical approaches to argument structure and variation."

Author : Ted Sanders,Eve Sweetser
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110224412

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Causal Categories in Discourse and Cognition by Ted Sanders,Eve Sweetser Pdf

Review text: "With all these contributions, this collection definitely constitutes a high quality volume in this research area and is a valuable reference to anyone who is interested in discourse and cognition."Han-wei in: Discourse Studies 3/2011

Author : Keith Allan
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 1102 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0080959695

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Concise Encyclopedia of Semantics by Keith Allan Pdf

Concise Encyclopedia of Semantics is a comprehensive new reference work aiming to systematically describe all aspects of the study of meaning in language. It synthesizes in one volume the latest scholarly positions on the construction, interpretation, clarification, obscurity, illustration, amplification, simplification, negotiation, contradiction, contraction and paraphrasing of meaning, and the various concepts, analyses, methodologies and technologies that underpin their study. It examines not only semantics but the impact of semantic study on related fields such as morphology, syntax, and typologically oriented studies such as ‘grammatical semantics’, where semantics has made a considerable contribution to our understanding of verbal categories like tense or aspect, nominal categories like case or possession, clausal categories like causatives, comparatives, or conditionals, and discourse phenomena like reference and anaphora. COSE also examines lexical semantics and its relation to syntax, pragmatics, and cognitive linguistics; and the study of how ‘logical semantics’ develops and thrives, often in interaction with computational linguistics. As a derivative volume from Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Second Edition, it comprises contributions from 150 of the foremost scholars of semantics in their various specializations and draws on 20+ years of development in the parent work in a compact and affordable format. Principally intended for tertiary level inquiry and research, this will be invaluable as a reference work for undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as academics inquiring into the study of meaning and meaning relations within languages. As semantics is a centrally important and inherently cross-cutting area within linguistics it will therefore be relevant not just for semantics specialists, but for most linguistic audiences. The first encyclopedia ever published in this fascinating and diverse field Combines the talents of the world’s leading semantics specialists The latest trends in the field authoritatively reviewed and interpreted in context of related disciplines Drawn from the richest, most authoritative, comprehensive and internationally acclaimed reference resource in the linguistics area Compact and affordable single volume reference format

Author : Yafeng Shan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192863485

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Alternative Approaches to Causation by Yafeng Shan Pdf

This volume focuses on alternatives to the two main philosophical approaches to causation: mechanistic explanation, and explanation in terms of difference-making. It explores the pluralistic, the fictionalist, the inferentialist, and the informational approaches, as well as the application of various approaches to natural and social sciences.

Author : Garrison W. Cottrell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317729464

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Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society by Garrison W. Cottrell Pdf

This volume features the complete text of all regular papers, posters, and summaries of symposia presented at the 18th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Papers have been loosely grouped by topic, and an author index is provided in the back. In hopes of facilitating searches of this work, an electronic index on the Internet's World Wide Web is provided. Titles, authors, and summaries of all the papers published here have been placed in an online database which may be freely searched by anyone. You can reach the Web site at: http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/events/cogsci96/proceedings. You may view the table of contents for this volume on the LEA Web site at: http://www.erlbaum.com.