[Lingtyp] agentive vs anticausative

[Juergen Bohnemeyer]

Dear Sergey – You likely already know about these:

Bohnemeyer, J. (2007). Morpholexical Transparency and the argument structure of verbs of cutting and breaking. Cognitive Linguistics 18(2): 153-177.
Haspelmath, M. (1993). More on the typology of causative/inchoative alternations. In B. Comrie & M. Polinsky (eds.), Causativity and transitivity. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 87-120.
Haspelmath, M. (2016). Universals of causative and anticausative verb formation and the spontaneity scale. Lingua Posnaniensis LVIII(2): 33-63.
Nichols, J., D. A. Peterson, & J. Barnes. (2004). Transitivizing and detransitivizing languages. Linguistic Typology 8: 149-211.
Best – Juergen

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Date: Sunday, August 4, 2024 at 12:54
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Subject: [Lingtyp] agentive vs anticausative
Dear colleagues,

Could you please suggest me studies of verbs which can be both agentive and anticausative, such as the English break, tear, and open. In other words, why some verbal notions are easily prone to anticausative derivation, while others, such as e.g. take and give, are less so. How does anticausative of such verbs relates to their passive?

Thank you very much!

Sergey
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