<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Jeremy,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Are you aware of the link between causative morphology and intensification?</div><div class="">A discussion of this is found e.g. in</div><div class="">.</div><div class="">Kittilä, Seppo. 2009. Causative morphology as non-valency increasing devices. <i class="">Folia Linguistica</i><span style="font-style: normal;" class=""> 43(1): 67–94. </span>DOI: <a class="nova-legacy-e-link--theme-decorated nova-legacy-e-link nova-legacy-e-link--color-inherit" target="_blank" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/FLIN.2009.002" rel="noopener">10.1515/FLIN.2009.002</a></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">Best,</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">Bastian</span></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Am 16.10.2021 um 08:55 schrieb tangzhengda <<a href="mailto:tangzhengda@126.com" class="">tangzhengda@126.com</a>>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.7; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Dear colleagues,</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">In a certain NW Chinese dialect the adjective phrase of '<b class="">Adj.-<i class="">de</i>-hen</b>' (roughly taken to mean '<b class="">very Adj</b>.') can only be used<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">on condition that</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>it take the role of a CAUSE, or a 'causing state', by which a NEGATIVE EFFECT is resulted. The Negative effect, as an 'event' that has never factually happen, can be encoded as another clause, an element of the same clause, or totally covertly implied. For example,</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""> INTS as CAUSE NEG EFFECT</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""> 这 鸡 瘦-得-很， 他 不 买</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""> this chicken thin-de-very, he NEG. buy.</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""> (When buying chickens) 这 鸡 瘦-得-很。 </div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""> this chicken thin-de-very</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""> 'The chicken is thin (therefore he cannot buy it/it fails to be worth...)'</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""> （See a chicken roaming by, no intent to buy） <span style="font-size: 16px;" class=""><b class="">*<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span>这 鸡 瘦-得-很</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""> this chicken thin-de-very</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""> My wonder is whether some correlation exists between the intensification of a property (like an AP magnified by the degree words) and the CAUSTION, esp. negative ones (in Barros 2003, positive cause plus a negative effect is one type of the negative caustion where the relata is termed as 'prevention/interference'). Perhaps English 'too...to...' could be such a construction to connect the state/property and an EVENT. If yes, how is the correlation motivated and typologically attested?</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">With best wishes,</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Jeremy</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="position: relative; zoom: 1;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">--</div><div class="">唐正大</div><div class="">中国社会科学院语言研究所《中国语文》编辑部</div><div class="">北京市建国门内大街5号，100732</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences,</div><div class="">No.5 Jianguomennei Dajie, Beijing, China; 100732</div><div style="clear: both;" class=""></div></div><div id="divNeteaseMailCard" class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><p class=""><br class=""></p><blockquote id="isReplyContent" style="padding-left: 1ex; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);" class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"></div></blockquote><br class=""><br class=""><span title="neteasefooter" class=""><div class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></span>_______________________________________________<br class="">Lingtyp mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;" class="">Lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a><br class=""><a href="http://listserv.linguistlist.org/mailman/listinfo/lingtyp" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;" class="">http://listserv.linguistlist.org/mailman/listinfo/lingtyp</a></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>