Cover not available

Review published In: Functions of Language
Vol. 7:1 (2000) ► pp.155–168

Get fulltext from our e-platform
JBE logo with link
PDF logo with download linkDownload PDF
authorization required
Book review

Maarten Lemmens. Lexical Perspectives on Transitivity and Ergativity. Causative constructions in English. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1998. ISBN 90 272 3671 2 Xii + 268 pp.

Reviewed by
 | Universidad Complutense of Madrid
Published online: 29 September 2001
DOI logo with link
https://doi.org/10.1075/fol.7.1.12lav
References (24)
References
Cruse, D. A. (1972). A note on English causatives. Linguistic Inquiry 31: 520–528.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
(1973). Some thoughts on agentivity. Journal of Linguistics 91: 11–23. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Davidse, K. (1991) Categories of Experiential Grammar. PhD. Thesis. University of Leuven: Linguistics Department.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
(1992) Transitivity/ergativity: The Janus-headed grammar of actions and events. In M. Davies & L. Ravelli (eds.) Advances in Systemic Linguistics. London: Pinter. 105–135.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
(1998) On transitivity and ergativity in English, or on the need for dialogue between schools. In J. Van der Auwera, et al. (eds.) English as a Human Language. Lincom: München. 95–108.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
DeLancey, S. (1984). Notes on agentivity and causation. Studies in Language 81: 181–213. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Halliday, M. A. K. (1967). Notes on transitivity and theme in English. Part 11. Journal of Linguistics 31: 37–81. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
(1968). Notes on transitivity and theme in English. Part 21. Journal of Linguistics 41: 179–215. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
(1985). An Introduction to Functional Grammar. London: Edward Arnold.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Keyser, S. J. & Roeper, T. (1984). On the middle and ergative constructions in English. Linguistic Inquiry 151: 381–416.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Langacker, R. W. (1984). Active zones. Berkeley Linguistics Society 101: 172–188. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
(1991). Foundations of Cognitive Grammar. Vol II: Descriptive Application. Stanford: Stanford University Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
(1993). Reference-point constructions. Cognitive Linguistics 41: 1–38. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
(1995). Raising and transparency. Language 711: 1–62. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Lavid, J. and Arüs, J. (1998a) Exploring transitivity/ergativity in English and Spanish: Empirical and computational findings. In M. Martinez (ed.) Transitivity Revisited. Huelva: Publicaciones de la Universidad de Huelva. 259–275.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Lavid, J. and Arús, J. (1998b). Modelling transitivity for a computational grammar of Spanish: A Contrastive study with English. Paper presented at the International Systemic-Functional Congress . Cardiff, July 1998.
Levin, B. (1993). English Verb Classes and Alternations. A preliminary investigation. Chicago: Chicago University Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Levin, B. & M. Rappaport Hovav. (1994). A preliminary analysis of causative verbs in English. Lingua 921: 35–77. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. (1995). Unaccusativity. At the syntax-lexical semantics interface. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Lyons, J. (1968). Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Nishimura, Y. (1993) Agentivity in cognitive Grammar. Conceptualizations and Mental Processing in Language. In Richard A. Geiger & Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn (eds.) 488–530. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Perlmutter, D. M. (1978) Impersonal passives and the unaccusative hypothesis. Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society. 157–189.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Pinker, S. (1989). Learnability and Cognition: The acquisition of argument structure. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Talmy, L. (1985) Force-dynamics in language and thought. Papers from the Para-session on Causatives and Agentivity. Chicago Linguistic Society 211: 293–337.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Mobile Menu Logo with link to supplementary files background Layer 1 prag Twitter_Logo_Blue