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Chairil Anwar : the poet and his language
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ISBN: 9024715083 9004286934 9789004286931 9789024715084 Year: 1972 Publisher: The Hague : Martinus Nijhoff,

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Transitivity alternations in diachrony
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ISBN: 9781443817493 144381749X 1443818100 9786612588099 1282588095 Year: 2010 Publisher: Newcastle Cambridge Scholars

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?his book offers a new approach to the theory of change in argument structure and voice morphology. It investigates the diachrony of transitivity, and especially the changes in causative verbs and transitivity alternations, based on data mainly from the Greek and English diachrony (all historical data are transcribed and accompanied by glosses and translations into Modern English). Data from earlier periods provide new information on burning questions in both Historical and Theoretical Lingui...

The be/have variation with intransitives in English, with special reference to the late modern period
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ISBN: 912200873X 9789122008736 Year: 1987 Volume: 70 Publisher: Stockholm: Almqvist och Wiksell,

Attitude problems: an essay on linguistic intensionality
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ISBN: 0199274940 9780199274949 0191699802 9786611164614 1281164615 0191534560 Year: 2006 Publisher: Oxford Clarendon


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Lexical perspectives on transitivity and ergativity : causative constructions in English
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ISBN: 9027236712 9786613312280 128331228X 9027275661 Year: 1998 Publisher: Amsterdam : Benjamins,

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Fusing insights from cognitive grammar, systemic-functional grammar and Government & Binding, the present work elaborates and refines Davidse's view that the English grammar of lexical causatives is governed by the transitive and ergative paradigms, two distinct models of causation (Davidse 1991, 1992). However, on the basis of extensive synchronic and diachronic data on verbs of killing (e.g. kill, execute, choke or drown), it is shown that 'transitivity' and 'ergativity' are not absolute but prototypical characteristics of verbs which may be overruled by the semantics of the co

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