Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. List of tables xiii
4. List of figures xvi
5. Acknowledgements xvii
6. 1. Introduction 1
7. 2. Corpus linguistics and theory 5
8. 3. English causative constructions 25
9. 4. Causative constructions in action 61
10. 5. The syntax and semantics of causative constructions 97
11. 6. Defining the causative prototype 145
12. 7. Lexical co-occurrence in causative constructions 169
13. 8. Collexemes in the effect slot 193
14. 9. The influence of register on causative constructions 223
15. 10. Causative constructions and foreign language teaching 251
16. 11. Conclusion 277
17. References 285
18. Appendix 1. Elicitation test 305
19. Appendix 2. Distinctive syntactic and semantic features of causative constructions 311
20. Appendix 3. Most frequent syntactic and semantic features of causative constructions 315
21. Author index 317
22. Subject index 321