A Study on the Causative Alternation from a Non-derivational Perspective

摘要：

　　The previous studies on the causative alternation can be divided into the derivational and non-derivational approaches.The cross-linguistic facts show that the former fails to provide an adequate account of the relationship between the causative and unaccusative alternates.However,the latter approach also faces some problems.In this paper we abandon the former and make a revision to the latter based on the theory proposed by Huang et al.(2009).We argue that the causative and unaccusative variants share one and the same root which conceptualizes different types of events and selects different eventive light verbs,resulting in two lexical items with different ways of argument realization.

关键词： The causative alternation Non-derivational perspective Eventive light verbs

作者: Daran Yang

作者单位: PLA University of Foreign Languages,Luoyang,China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: Chinese Lexical Semantics 15th Workshop(CLSW 2014)(第十五届汉语词汇语义学国际研讨会)

会议地点: 澳门

会议语种:英文

页码: 161-169

在线出版日期: 2014-06-09（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）