Interaction and causation: Causative constructions in modern standard Dutch

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...

Conditionals and prediction: time, knowledge, and causation in conditional constructions

This book offers a new and in-depth analysis of English conditional sentences. In a wide-ranging discussion, Dancygier classifies conditional constructions according to time-reference and modality. She shows how the basic meaning parameters of conditionality, such as causation and logical sequence, correlate to formal parameters of the linguistic constructions which are used to express them. Da...

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...

Algebras from Standard Constructions

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...