The causal-noncausal alternation in the Northern Tungusic languages of Russia

International audience Languages differ widely in the way they code causal-noncausal alternations, in which a verb event is either presented as happening by itself (the noncausal event) or as being instigated by an external causer (the causal event). Some languages, such as English, tend not to make...

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Main Authors: Aralova, Natalia, Pakendorf, Brigitte
Other Authors: Dynamique Du Langage (DDL), Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), In Andreas Hölzl, Thomas E. Payne
Format: Book Part
Language:English
Published: HAL CCSD 2022
Subjects:
Northern Asia
valence
causative
anticausative
equipollence
form-to-frequency correspondence
Tungusic
[SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics
Evenki
Tungusic languages
Online Access:https://hal.univ-lyon2.fr/hal-03801751
https://hal.univ-lyon2.fr/hal-03801751/document
https://hal.univ-lyon2.fr/hal-03801751/file/Aralova_Pakendorf_2022_causal_noncausal_alternation.pdf

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