TY - BOOK ID - 17182591 TI - Causatives and transitivity AU - Comrie, Bernard AU - Polinsky, Maria PY - 1993 VL - 23 SN - 9027230269 1556193750 1283092700 9027285861 9786613092700 9789027230263 9789027285867 9781556193750 PB - Amsterdam Benjamins DB - UniCat KW - Causative (Linguistics) KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Transitivity KW - Causaliteit (Taalwetenschap) KW - Causality (Linguistics) KW - Causalité (Linguistique) KW - Causatiefvormen (Taalwetenschap) KW - Causatieve constructies (Taalwetenschap) KW - Causatieven (Taalwetenschap) KW - Causatif (Linguistique) KW - Causative constructions (Linguistics) KW - Causatives (Linguistics) KW - Oorzakelijkheid (Taalwetenschap) KW - Grammar KW - Grammar [Comparative and general ] KW - Linguistics KW - Philology KW - Causal relations (Linguistics) KW - Transitivity. KW - Causative constructions KW - Syntax KW - Grammar, Comparative and general - Transitivity UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:17182591 AB - 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 c ER -