Towards a typology of word-level causatives
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Chao Li [1]
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[1] College of Staten Island
College of Staten Island
Estados Unidos
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- Localización: Word: Journal of the International Linguistic Association, ISSN-e 2373-5112, ISSN 0043-7956, Vol. 62, Nº 3, 2016, págs. 163-177
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
The paper proposes that word-level causatives can be classified into two types, simplex causatives and complex causatives. Simplex causatives can be further classified into labile simplex causatives and non-labile simplex causatives, and complex causatives can be further classified into derivational, compounding, and inflectional complex causatives. It shows that it is possible for simplex causatives and some form of complex causatives to co-exist in a language. Moreover, the paper demonstrates that the existence of productive compounding/inflectional causatives tends to lead to the absence of a reasonable number of labile simplex causatives and that there is a functional basis for this. Finally, the paper shows that Chinese manifests a typological shift from the use of non-compounding word-level causatives to the use of productive compounding complex causatives.
