11. Syntactic Causatives

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. List of Abbreviations vii
5. The Yale System of Romanization viii
6. 1. The Problem 1
7. 2. The Grammar 13
8. 3. Grammatical Relations and Thematic Roles 25
9. 4. The Case System 33
10. 5. Passivization and Dative Advancement 47
11. 6. Possessor Ascension 67
12. 7. Inversion Constructions 97
13. 8. Focus Constructions 117
14. 9. Subject-to-Object Raising 139
15. 10. Lexical Causatives 153
16. 11. Syntactic Causatives 171
17. 12. Case and Word Order 197
18. 13. Floated Quantifiers 211
19. 14. Some Special Challenges 225
20. 15. The Acquisition Problem 249
21. 16. Concluding Remarks 269
22. References 283