The causal-noncausal alternation in the Northern Tungusic languages of Russia
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 a morphological distin...
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Language: | English |
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Language Science Press
2022
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Online Access: | https://zenodo.org/record/7053361 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7053361 |