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Causatives in Minimalism

2011 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 2011
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Book Synopsis Causatives in Minimalism by : Mercedes Tubino Blanco

Download or read book Causatives in Minimalism written by Mercedes Tubino Blanco. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."

The Syntax of Igbo Causatives

2016-12-14 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 2016-12-14
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Book Synopsis The Syntax of Igbo Causatives by : Ndubuisi Anyanwu

Download or read book The Syntax of Igbo Causatives written by Ndubuisi Anyanwu. This book was released on 2016-12-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Landmarks Series is a research and publications outfit funded by the Landmarks Research Foundation to publish recent outstanding doctoral dissertations on any aspect of Nigerian linguistics, languages, literatures and cultures. This study examines causatives in Igbo within the minimalist program. It identifies three types of causative: analytical, morphological and lexical. The book is divided into five chapters. Chapter 1 is the general introduction, while Chapter 2 examines in some details the theory of causativity. Chapters 3, 4 and 5 focus on the analytical, morphological and lexical causative respectively.

Causatives and the Empty Lexicon

2003
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Release : 2003
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Book Synopsis Causatives and the Empty Lexicon by : Pauli Salo

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Minimalism and Movement in French Causatives

2003 French language
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Release : 2003
Genre : French language
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Book Synopsis Minimalism and Movement in French Causatives by : Aixa Heller

Download or read book Minimalism and Movement in French Causatives written by Aixa Heller. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Syntax of (Anti-)Causatives

2008-06-26 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 2008-06-26
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Book Synopsis The Syntax of (Anti-)Causatives by : Florian Schäfer

Download or read book The Syntax of (Anti-)Causatives written by Florian Schäfer. This book was released on 2008-06-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops an approach to the causative alternation that assumes syntactic event decomposition and a configurational theta theory. It is couched within the framework of the Minimalist Program and, especially, within Distributed Morphology. Central to the work is the syntax and semantics of canonical external arguments of causative verbs as well as of oblique causers and causative PPs in the context of anticausative verbs in different languages such as Germanic, Romance, Balkan, and Caucasian languages. The book also develops a new account of the origin and nature of the morphological marking which is often found on anticausatives across languages. The main claim is that this morphology is a reflex of a syntactic way to prohibit the assignment of the external theta role. Moreover, the book develops an account about the origin of the implicit agent in generic middles which often bear the same morphology as marked anticausatives.

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