This book is an exploration of the syntax of external arguments in transitivity alternations
from a cross-linguistic perspective. It focuses particularly on the causative/anticausative …

The grammatical category of voice covers a wide range of phenomena, including
causatives, applicatives, passives, antipassives, middles, and others. Drawing on data from …

This book is concerned with anticausative verbs, ie, the intransitive version of verbs that
undergo the causative alternation. The main topic is the investigation of the so-called …

We propose, and provide corpus-based support for, a usage-based explanation for cross-
linguistic trends in the coding of causal–noncausal verb pairs, such as raise/rise, break …

This article discusses the transitivity alternation between lexical causative verbs and their
anticausative (inchoative) counterparts. It provides an overview of the semantic, syntactic …

To process language in a way that is compatible with human expectations in a
communicative interaction, we need computational representations of lexical properties that …

This paper supports an analysis of the causative alternation in English in which all
alternating verbs are lexically associated only with the internal argument (s). Lexical and …

This dissertation is about the elements that build verbs, the elements that introduce
arguments, and how these elements interact to determine the interpretation of arguments …

This chapter argues that the manner/result complementarity (Rappaport Hovav & Levin,
2010), that is, the observation that a verb cannot simultaneously lexicalize manner and …

This paper focuses on basic valency orientation in Latin, based on the typology laid out by
Nichols, Peterson and Barnes (2004). The data analyzed shows that Latin does not feature a …