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Session Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/973db143-09f9-4b6a-9cb3-c60bb54ea332

Title: Some Remarks on the Morphosemantics of Multiple Causative Sequences

Description: There is a diverse array of languages which employ more than one morpheme dedicated to causation. This is not surprising considering the numerous complexities involved in encoding a causative event and all of the linguistic domains it implicates, such as animacy, transitivity, lexical semantics, eventivity, and pragmatics (Shibatani 1976b, 2001; Shibatani and Pardeshi 2002; Dixon 2000). There is a subset of those multiple morphological causative languages in which the causatives can occur simultaneously in a fixed sequence on a verb stem. An example of this is found in the Tsimshian language, Gitksan (Rigsby 1986; Tarpent 1987), and Tarascan, a Mesoamerican isolate (Maldonado & Nava 2002). Whereas English expresses indirect causation analytically, both Gitksan and Tarascan can achieve indirect causation synthetically through the morphology of ‘stacking’ causatives on the verb. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3765/bls.v32i1.3467

Date created: 2012-01-01

Location

Continent: Americas

Country: Canada

Region: British Columbia

Address: British Columbia

Project

ID: FTG0101

Name: 0237-FTG0101

Description: Gitksanimx is the language spoken by the First Nations people who live in northwestern British Columbia, Canada. Gitksan is known to have different speech registers, manifested through a variety of sentence constructions and discourse particles that can distinguish the different functions of a narrative. The objective of this project is to establish a foundational body of video, audio and text documents conceptually and thematically centred on the narrative, specifically including the telling of stories and legends, the relaying of personal history, and the description of the events involved in modern day life.

Topics

Topic: Causatives

Keywords

Keyword: Causatives

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Genre: Academic output

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Name: Gitxsan

Description: Content Language

Language

Name: English

Description: Working Language

Actor

Full Name: Tyler Peterson

Role: author

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Filename: peterson2012a.pdf

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/5c5ec564-661c-4591-a98a-13ee03331606

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