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Causativization1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Yehuda N. Falk
Yehuda N. Falk
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Department of English, The Faculty of Humanities, Institute of Languages, Literatures and Arts, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, 91905 Jerusalem, Israel
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In the search for linguistic universals which typifies the generative approach to grammar, nothing is as revealing as phenomena which manifest themselves in a wide variety of languages. By exploring the similarities and differences that we find in a single phenomenon cross-linguistically, we can gain insight into the nature of the linguistic universals that are responsible for the phenomenon in question. This study is an investigation into one such phenomenon, morphological causativization (henceforth causativization), which may be illustrated by the following examples from a variety of languages.

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , March 1991 , pp. 55 - 79
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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