Causative Constructions: A Descriptive Analysis

a typological study of causative constructions in persian

causative constructions play an important role in the mental and linguistic system of human beings. the methodology that is used in this paper for studying causative constructions in persian is the combination of the morphology-based approach and song’s model (1996, 2001). emphasizing the causer np and the causee np, we draw the semantic map of the causer np (based on the animacy hierarchy). in...

A Dynamic Semantic Account of Causative Psych Verb Constructions*

Composition and Control in Spanish Causative and Perception Constructions

It is generally agreed that periphrastic causatives and perception verbs with infinitival complements fall into two basic construction types in Romance languages (Abeillé et al. 1997, 1998, Miller and Lowry 2003). The first is the double complement construction (1), where the causative/perception verb selects for both an NP controller (accusative) and an infinitival VP complement, as shown in t...

An ERP study of Japanese causative cleft constructions in context

This study examined the processing of two types of Japanese causative cleft constructions (subject-gap vs. object-gap) by conducting an event-related brain potential (ERP) experiment to clarify the processing mechanism of long-distance dependencies. The results demonstrated that the subject-gap constructions elicited larger P600 effects compared with object-gap constructions. Based on these fin...

Chinese Descriptive and Resultative V-de Constructions. A Dependency-based Analysis

This contribution presents a dependency grammar (DG) analysis of the so-called descriptive and resultative V-de constructions in Mandarin Chinese (VDCs); it focuses, in particular, on the dependency analysis of the noun phrase that intervenes between the two predicates in a VDC. Two methods, namely chunking data collected from informants and two diagnostics specific to Chinese, i.e. bǎ and bèi ...