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Causative Alternation

Causative Alternation is a linguistic phenomenon within semantic roles whereby a verb alternates between an intransitive form denoting a simple event and a transitive form that introduces a causer argument, thereby encoding causation through syntactic and semantic restructuring.

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<b>Language universals and linguistic typology</b> : Syntax and morphology. By Bernard Comrie. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; Oxford: Blackwell, 1981. Pp. xi, 252. Cloth $25.00, paper $10.00.

Scott DeLancey · Language · 1983 · 1.3K citations

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Cause and the structure of verbs

Dieter Wunderlich · Linguistic Inquiry · 1997 · 476 citations

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German Children’s Comprehension of Word Order and Case Marking in Causative Sentences

Miriam Dittmar, Kirsten Abbot‐Smith, Elena Lieven et al. · Child Development · 2008 · 281 citations

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Deflexion as a counterdirectional factor in grammatical change

Muriel Norde · Language Sciences · 2000 · 258 citations

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More On The Typology Of Inchoative/Causative Verb Alternations

Martín Haspelmath · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 1993 · 255 citations · Full text

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    Silvina Montrul

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States

    5 publications · 248 citations

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    Florian Schäfer

    University of Stuttgart, Germany

    3 publications · 257 citations

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    Martín Haspelmath

    Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

    3 publications · 583 citations

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    Arie Verhagen

    Leiden University, Netherlands

    2 publications · 316 citations

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    James Essegbey

    University of Florida, United States

    2 publications · 105 citations

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  1. Max Planck Society

    Munich, Germany

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  2. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

    Leipzig, Germany

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    6 publications

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  3. University of Stuttgart

    Stuttgart, Germany

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    5 publications

    371 citations

  4. University of Southern California

    Los Angeles, United States

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    3 publications

    90 citations

  5. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

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    3 publications

    88 citations

  6. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

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    4 publications

    343 citations

  7. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

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    3 publications

    174 citations

  8. University of Amsterdam

    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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    2 publications

    271 citations

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  2. Cognitive Linguistics

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  3. Lingua

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  4. Journal of Linguistics

    6 publications · 355 citations

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  5. Linguistic Inquiry

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