HS The Syntax of Cause and Effect

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date topic materials/assignments Audio
09.10.07 Introduction; why care? podcast
16.10.07 Causativity and temporality Vandepitte, S. (2006). Causality. In Östman, J.-O. & Verschueren, J. (Eds.) Handbook of Pragmatics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.podcast
23.10.07 Principles of grammaticalizing causativity Lascarides, A. (1992). Knowledge, causality and temporal representation. Linguistics, 30 (1992), 941-973. podcast
30.10.07 Analytic causativity Wolff, P., et al. (2003). Expressing Causation in English and Other Languages. Unpublished ms, University of Memphis. podcast
06.11.07 Resultative verbs Levin, B. & Rappaport Hovav, M. (1995). ‘Wiping the Slate Clean’: A Lexical Semantic Exploration', In Levin, B. & Pinker, S. (Eds.) (1995). Lexical and conceptual semantics. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 123-151. podcast
13.11.07 Classifying verbs of change Brooks, P. J., Tomasello, M., Dodson, K. & Lewis, L.B. (1999). Young Children’s Overgeneralization with Fixed Transitivity Verbs. Child Development, 70 (1999), 1325-1337. podcast
20.11.07 Psych-verbs as causatives Rothstein, S. (2004). Structuring events. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, ch. 3 “Resultative predication” pp.59-72. sorry
27.11.07 The causer/causee issue Iwata, S. (1995). The Distinctive Character of Psych-Verbs as Causatives. Linguistic Analysis 25, 95-120. podcast
04.12.07 Causative connectors Kemmer, S. & Verhagen, A. (1994). The grammar of causatives and the conceptual structure of events. Cognitive Linguistics 5-2, 115-156. podcast
11.12.07 Causative modelling and testing Degand, L. (2000). Causal connectives or causal prepositions? Discursive constraints. Journal of Pragmatics, 32, 687-707. sorry
18.12.07 Causative pivots in Cognitive grammar Steven Pinker: The Stuff of Thought (video, ted.com) podcast
08.01.08 Causative pivots in Cognitive grammar Find info on causative connectors podcast
15.01.08 The construction grammar perspective Croft, W. (2001). Radical Construction Grammar. Syntactic Theory in Typological Perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press, p.1-47. podcast
22.01.08 Causation and events tba podcast
29.01.08 Dowty and the logical view tba podcast

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Al-Ani, F. (1996). Semantics correlation in causativity. Translation And Meaning, Part 4, 33-44.
Alsina, A. & Joshi, S. (1991). Parameters in causative constructions. CLS: proceedings from the 27th regional meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 27, 1-15.
Andersen, H. (2001). Actualization: Linguistic change in progress. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Belvin, R.S. & Arnaiz, A.R. (year). Imperfective complements of possessive causatives: A comparative study of Spanish and English, 41-58.
Belvin, R.S. (1993). The two causative haves and the two possessives haves. Proceedings from the meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 29-1, 61-75.
Bishop, N. (1990). A typology of causatives, pragmatically speaking. Notes on Linguistics, 49, 31-42.
Bjerre, T. (2001). Causation, event structure and process specifying adverbials. Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 24, 29-46.
Black, J.R. & Motapanyane, V. (1997). Clitics, pronouns and movement. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Borer, H. (1991). The causative-inchoative alternation: A case study in parallel morphology. The Linguistic Review, 8, 119-158.
Cerbasi, D. (1998). The causee in Romance and Germanic causative constructions. Languages in Contrast, 1-2, 161-171.
Comrie, B. & Polinsky, M. (1993).Causatives and Transitivity. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Degand, L. (2000). Causal connectives or causal prepositions? Discursive constraints. Journal of Pragmatics, 32, 687-707.
Do, A.H.-J. (2001). Proceedings of the 25th annual Boston University Conference on language development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Goldberg, A.E. (2001). Patient arguments of causative verbs can be omitted: The role of information structure in argument distribution. Language Sciences, 23 (2001), 503-524.
Goldberg, A.E. (1995). Constructions: A construction grammar approach to argument structure. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Günkel, L. (1999). Causatives in German. Theoretical Linguistics, 25-2/3, 133-159.
Holmes, J. (1999). The syntax and semantics of causative verbs. UCL working papers in Linguistics, 11, 323-350.
Inoue, K.(1995). Causative have and experiental have. English Linguistics, 12, 79-95.
Katada, F. (year). Experience versus non-experience: Asymmetries in the causative system, 133-150.
Kemmer, S. & Verhagen, A. (1994). The grammar of causatives and the conceptual structure of events. Cognitive Linguistics, 5-2 (1994), 115-156.
Kural, M. (2000). Modality in causatives. Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 23, 224-233.
Levin, B. & Rappaport Hovav, M. (1994). A preliminary analysis of causative verbs in English. Lingua, 92 (1994), 35-77.
Maat, H.P. & Degand, L. (2001). Scaling causal relations and connectives in terms of speaker involvement. Cognitive Linguistics, 12-3, 211-245.
Maat, H.P. & Sanders, T. (2001). Subjectivity in causal connectives: An empirical study of language in use. Cognitive Linguistics, 12-3 (2001), 247-273.
Mithun, M. (year). An invisible hand at the root of causation, 237-257.
Montrul, S. ( L1 Influence with overt/non-overt morphology in the L2 Acquisition of Argument Structure: Evidence from English and Turkish Causative Verbs, 510-521.
Morris, L. (1997).Time and cause in the English connector ‘as’. The LACUS Forum, 23, 417-428.
Nelson, D. (2000). Linking causatives and experiencers. Leeds Working Papers in Linguistics, 8, 149-177.
Odlin, T. (1995). Causation in language contact: A devilish problem. CLCS Occasional Paper No. 41, 1-9.
Parodi, C. (1996). Aspects of Romance linguistics: Selected Papers From the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
Pretorious, E.J.(1994). A text linguistic perspective on causality in discourse : Towards a taxonomy of causal relations. South African Journal of Linguistics, 22, 81-122.
Rappaport Hovav, M. & Levin, B.(2001). An event structure account of English resultatives Language, 77-4, 766-797.
Rauch, I. & Carr, G.F. (1997). Insight in Germanic linguistics, II Classic and ContemporaryBerlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Ritter, E. & Thomas Rosen, S. (1993). Deriving Causation Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 11, 519-555.
Shapiro, M. (year). Markedness, causation, and linguistic change: A semiotic perspective, 187-201.
Singh, M. (1992). An event-based analysis of causatives. CLS: proceedings from the … meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 28, 215-529.
Smith, T.Y. (1998). How ‘give’ and ‘receive’ provide structure for more abstract notions: The case of benefactives, adversatives, causatives, and passives. Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 24, 219-231.
Waltz, H. (??). Causative psych-verbs in the history of English, 337-343.
Washio, R. (1997). Resultatives, compsositionality and language variation. Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 6, 1-49.
Wischer, I. & Diewald, G.M. (2002). New reflections on grammaticalization. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Wolff, P. & Song, G. (2003). Models of causation and the semantics of causal verbs Cognitive Psychology, 47, 276-332. Wolff, P., Klettke, B., Ventura, T., & Song, G. (year). Expressing Causation in English and Other Languages. Ziv, Y. (1993). Causality in language and discourse. Journal of Literary Semantics 22-3, 177-185. Ziv, Y. (1993). Causality and context dependence. Belgian Journal of Linguistics , 8, 187-200.