Constraints on the causative derivation in Early Vedic: Evidence for a diachronic typology of transitivity
(2013) Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics — Vol. 49, n° 1, p. 79-101 (2013)
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- The present paper demonstrates the relevance of the semantic approach to transitivity (going back to Hopper and Thompson 1980) for the analysis of Vedic causative verbs. I argue that in terms of this approach it is possible to explain a number of constraints on causative derivation (which cannot be explained in terms of the traditional, syntactic, definition) and to offer a unified account of the semantics of these verbs. I also briefly discuss some theoretical implications of this analysis of causative verbs in Vedic for a diachronic typology of transitivity.
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Kulikov, L. (2013). Constraints on the causative derivation in Early Vedic: Evidence for a diachronic typology of transitivity. Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics, 49(1), 79-101. https://doi.org/10.1515/psicl-2013-0003 (Original work published 2013)