Comrie Bernard, Polinsky Maria (eds.) Causatives and Transitivity

John Benjamins, 1993. — 409 p. — (Studies in Language Companion Series, v. 23)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.The inflectional category of voice
Transitivity increase in Athabaskan languages
Transitive and causative in the Slavic lexicon
More on the typology of inchoative/causative verb alternations
The “second causative”
“Make” and the semantic origins of causativity
Causatives and causality
Causee and patient in the causative of transitive
Bystander voice in English
Causative constructions in Svan
The causative in Yukaghir
Alutor causatives, noun incorporation, and the Mirror Principle
Some remarks on causatives and transitivity in Haruai
Through the looking-glass, and how causatives look there
Hybrid causative constructions
Adversative constructions in Even in relation to passive and permissive
On non-causative effects of causativity in Aleut
Three causatives in Dogon and the overlapping of causative and passive markers