In the realm of causativization, the traditional tension between explaining crosslinguistic variation while maintaining that a phenomenon has a common universal source can be stated specifically as follows: how can we explain the fact that if a certain type of verb causativizes in both languages A and B, the derived predicate usually has the same syntactic and semantic properties, while also ac...

The present paper is an attempt to describe and analyse the structure of causatives in Hmar, a Kuki-Chin subgroup Tibeto-Burman language family, spoken by around 98,550 speakers as per Census India, 2011. This discusses two types language: Morphological Lexical. Hmar has morphological causative forms, viz prefix /sùk-/ suffix /-tìr/, that are productively employed derivation structures. Lexical...

In this paper I analyze the morphosyntactic alternations involving the causative morpheme ̃in Hupa, an Athapaskan language. The distribution of this morpheme is of interest because it is intermediate between that of what might be called a ‘lexical’ causative, and that of a syntactic causative which takes a clausal complement. I will argue that a uniform treatment may be given for ̃in structural t...

Levin and Rappaport (1995, henceforth L&R) argue that the distribution of the English causative alternation is predicted by the internal/external causation distinction. For L&R this distinction is represented in lexical conceptual structure. In this paper I argue that representing this distinction in the syntax, rather than in the lexicon, allows a crosslinguistically more satisfying theory of ...

The current study aims at exploring the role of causativization as one of the causes stated in the literature for overpassivization of English unaccusatives in an Iranian context.The study was conducted using three data collection procedures, an Oxford Placement Test, a Grammaticality Judgment Task, and a Production Task. The results revealed that causativization errors with non-alternating una...