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Finding The Best Fit For Direct And Indirect Causation: A Typological Study ...
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The contrast between direct and indirect causation is the most widely discussed semantic distinction in the literature on causative constructions. This distinction has been claimed to correlate with a number of formal parameters, such as linguistic distance, productivity and length, which are linked to different functional and diachronic explanations based on the principles of iconicity and economy. The present study tests these claims on a typologically representative sample of languages from 46 diverse families, examining four formal variables and their association with (in)directness of causation. According to the data, formal length displays the most pervasive association with the semantic distinction in question, which supports the economy-based explanation. However, the relative prominence of the formal parameters also depends on the type of causatives and their stage of grammaticalization. ...
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URL: https://zenodo.org/record/582333 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.582333
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A Multivariate Study Of T/V Forms In European Languages Based On A Parallel Corpus Of Film Subtitles ...
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Measuring Iconicity: A Quantitative Study Of Lexical And Analytic Causatives In British English ...
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Communicative Efficiency And Syntactic Predictability: A Crosslinguistic Study Based On The Universal Dependencies Corpora ...
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Just because: In search of objective criteria of subjectivity expressed by causal connectives
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In: Dialogue & Discourse; Vol 8 No 1 (2017); 132-150 ; 2152-9620 (2017)
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