Q: a type of causative-applicative polysemy

[Peter Austin]

I published an article on this concerning Australian Aboriginal languages
(including an account in LFG lexical mapping theory) in a book published in
Japan in 1997 -- you can find a downloadable version on my web page at
http://www.hrelp.org/aboutus/staff/index.php?cd=pa#hardpubs

Best wishes,
Peter Austin

2009/4/9 peterarkadiev <peterarkadiev at yandex.ru>

> Dear colleagues,
>
> does anyone know of well-documented and more or less systematic examples of
> situations where a causative derivation aplied to an agentive intransitive
> verb like 'walk' would yield a transitive verb like 'carry' (or 'work' ->
> 'work on something')? I call this an instance of causative-applicative
> polysemy since the new argument introduced by the derivation is not the
> Causing Agent but rather a Patient.
>
> I know of 'assistive' causatives like 'dance' -> 'dance with somebody', but
> here the new argument is not a Patient.
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> Peter Arkadiev
> Institute of Slavic Studies
> Russian Academy of Sciences
> Moscow
>



-- 
Prof Peter K. Austin
Marit Rausing Chair in Field Linguistics
Director, Endangered Languages Academic Program
Department of Linguistics, SOAS
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG
United Kingdom

web: http://www.hrelp.org/aboutus/staff/index.php?cd=pa
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