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

• Main Authors: Natalia Aralova, Brigitte Pakendorf
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Language Science Press 2022
• Subjects: Northern Asia; valence; causative; anticausative; equipollence; form; to; frequency correspondence; Tungusic; Evenki; Tungusic languages
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7053361

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...