The main subject in this research is to analyse analytical causatives Serbian, or predicate constructions with causative meaning. Apart from pointing out the basic typological characteristics of constructions, paper highlights two topics which deserve our attention, namely structural features construction and semantic resources controlling verb, performs operator function. Depending on grammati...

This paper focusses on the English adjectival resultative construction, as exempliied in examples (1)-(4). (1) John hammered the metal at. (2) The river froze solid. (3) The dog barked itself hoarse. (4) The dog barked the neighbours awake. Result predication occurs with both transitive and intransitive verbs. In the transitive case, the result state is predicated of the object (1). For intrans...

Quartz is a human carcinogen and a causative agent of silicosis. Exposure levels often exceed exposure limits in the construction industry. The need for effective control measures is high, but the complex structure of the construction industry, the variability in sources of exposure and the frequent changes of worksite makes it difficult to implement even simple and potentially effective contro...

     This project investigates the relationship between lexical semantics and causative morphology in the acquisition of causative/inchoative-related verbs in English as a foreign language by Iranian speakers. Results of translation and picture judgment task show although L2 learners have largely acquired the correct lexico-syntactic classification of verbs in English, they were constrained by ...