In:The Boundary between Grammar and Lexicon: Evidence from Japanese verb morphology
Brent de Chene
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 368] 2025
► pp. 88–120
Chapter 4An apparent challenge: Syntactic and lexical causatives
Published online: 3 February 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.368.c4
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.368.c4
Article outline
- 4.1Introduction
- 4.2Syntactic ‑(s)ase-, lexical ‑(a)se-
- 4.2.1Hiatus in derivation and in verbal inflection
- 4.2.2High/low attachment analyses and the passive and causative suffixes
- 4.3An introduction to blocking and causatives
- 4.4Reinterpreting “lexical ‑(s)ase-”
- 4.4.1Distinguishing lexical and syntactic ‑ase-
- 4.4.2The putative complementarity of ‑ase‑ and other transitivizers
- 4.4.3Verb stems: Lexical ‑ase‑ as a historical development of ‑as-
- 4.4.4Possessor-raising causatives
- 4.4.5-(a)se‑ and ‑(s)ase‑ in VP idioms
- 4.5Toward an understanding of the replacement of ‑as‑ by ‑ase-
- 4.6Conclusion
- 4.7Interim summary
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