Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. The inflectional category of voice 1
5. Transitivity increase in Athabaskan languages 47
6. Transitive and causative in the Slavic lexicon 69
7. More on the typology of inchoative/causative verb alternations 87
8. The “second causative” 121
9. “Make” and the semantic origins of causativity 155
10. Causatives and causality 165
11. Causee and patient in the causative of transitive 177
12. Bystander voice in English 241
13. Causative constructions in Svan 253
14. The causative in Yukaghir 271
15. Alutor causatives, noun incorporation, and the Mirror Principle 287
16. Some remarks on causatives and transitivity in Haruai 315
17. Through the looking-glass, and how causatives look there 327
18. Hybrid causative constructions 343
19. Adversative constructions in Even in relation to passive and permissive 369
20. On non-causative effects of causativity in Aleut 385
21. Three causatives in Dogon and the overlapping of causative and passive markers 391
22. Index of languages 397