Since Dowty (1979) accomplishments are analyzed as involving at least two components:
an activity/process performed by the agent/causer and change of state of the theme induced …

Central to this study is a question of how the conceptual distinction between direct and
indirect causation is manifested in the grammar of natural languages. Since the early years …

This thesis is dedicated to two strong island effects: The Subject Condition and The Adjunct
Condition. Both effects can be unified under a single generalization, known as Condition on …

This paper uses facts about case allomorphy and possessive morphology in Balkar, a Turkic
language spoken in southern Russia, to contribute to the examination of the internal …

This paper uses facts about case allomorphy and possessive morphology in Balkar, a Turkic
language spoken in southern Russia, to contribute to the examination of the internal …

This paper deals with the productive morphological causative r (ə)-in Abaza (Northwest
Caucasian), a highly polysynthetic ergative language. We discuss the causativization …

This study is primarily concerned with the syntactic organisation of Kalmyk clauses headed
by verbs that contain a morphological causative marker. The data reported here have been …

В статье впервые предлагается типологическая классификация
словоклассифицирующих аспектуальных систем, т. е. таких, в которых перфективное и …

In this paper we analyze the behaviour of causative forms from the Shapsug dialect of
Adyghe (aka West Circassian, West Caucasian family) and show how it may be accounted …

Various interactions between argument structure and eventuality type are currently attracting
much attention. In this paper, we contribute to the field by examining one specific type of …