The grammar of causation and interpersonal manipulation / edited by Masayoshi Shibatani.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Shibatani, Masayoshi.

Conference Name:

Rice Symposium on Linguistics (8th : 2000)

Series:

Typological studies in language ; v. 48.

Typological studies in language, 0167-7373 ; v. 48

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Causative (Linguistics)--Congresses.

Causative (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (567 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The Grammar of Causation and Interpersonal Manipulation

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Dedication

Table of contents

Preface

Appreciation

Abbreviations

Introduction

Cooperation and interpersonal manipulation in the society of intimates

Verbs of interpersonal causality and the folk theory of mind and behavior

The causative continuum

Causation, constructions, and language ecology: An example from French

Tarascan causatives and event complexity

Some constraints on Cora causative constructions

Olutec causatives and applicatives

On some causative doublets in Classical Nahuatl

The notion of transfer in Sikuani causatives

Causative constructions in Akawaio

Causation inMatses (Panoan, Amazonian Peru)

Causativization and transitivity in Shipibo-Konibo

Causatives in Asheninka

Guaraní causative constructions

General index

Typological Studies in Language.

Notes:

Based on the 8th Biennial Rice Symposium on Linguistics held in 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612161735

9781282161733

1282161733

9789027297228

9027297223

OCLC:

70766419