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In:Causatives and Transitivity
Edited by Bernard Comrie and Maria Polinsky
[Studies in Language Companion Series 23] 1993
► pp. v–vi

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Published online: 9 September 1993
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Table of contents

Prefacevii
The inflectional category of voice: towards a more rigorous definition1
Transitivity increase in Athabaskan languages47
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Transitive and causative in the Slavic lexicon: evidence from Russian69
More on the typology of inchoative/causative verb alternations87
The “second causative”: a typological sketch121
“Make” and the semantic origins of causativity: a typological study155
Causatives and causality: towards a semantic typology of causal relations165
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Causee and patient in the causative of transitive: coding conflict or doubling of grammatical relations?177
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Bystander voice in English: a generalization masked in some versions of theta theory241
Causative constructions in Svan: further evidence for role domination253
The causative in Yukaghir271
Alutor causatives, noun incorporation, and the Mirror Principle287
Some remarks on causatives and transitivity in Haruai315
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Through the looking-glass, and how causatives look there327
Hybrid causative constructions: benefactive causative and adversity passive343
Adversative constructions in Even in relation to passive and permissive369
On non-causative effects of causativity in Aleut385
Three causatives in Dogon and the overlapping of causative and passive markers391
Index of languages397
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