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| 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 Unpublished ms, University of Memphis.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.