Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Encoding transfer, let/allow and permission in Modern Irish 13
5. Degrees of causivity in German lassen causitive constructions 53
6. Grammaticalization of ‘give’ in Slavic between drift and contact 107
7. ‘Give’ and semantic maps 129
8. How Europeans GIVE 147
9. Ditransitive constructions in Gan Chinese 177
10. The argument realisation of give and take verbs in Māori 195
11. GIVE an its arguments in Bohairic Coptic 227
12. Giving is receiving 253
13. Enabling and allowing in Hebrew 271
14. Low-level patterning of pronominal subjects and verb tenses in English 295
15. The morphological, syntactic and semantic interface of the verb GIVE in Lithuanian 327
16. Rise and fall of the TAKE-future in written Estonian 353
17. Causation in the Australian dialects Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara 385
18. The fare causative derivation in Italian 425
19. Information-structural encoding of recipient in non-canonical alignments of Persian 463
20. Index 491