@article{b38aacc71e73455cb7024b52f10e15b0,
title = "Causatives across components",
abstract = "The paper divides verbal alternations which, broadly speaking, involve the cognitive notion of Causation into (i) causativization, (ii) decausativization. The latter operation is identical across languages and applies universally in the lexicon. The former is argued to be lexical in some languages; in others, causative verbs are built in the syntax by means of a Cause predicate and an embedded one. The study presents novel empirical evidence, identifies and derives the various clusters of properties associated with the alternations, and formulates the precise mechanisms underlying them. The empirical array is drawn mainly from Hungarian and Japanese. The findings have direct implications for alternative conceptions of the division of labor between the syntax and the lexicon.",
keywords = "Causative, Decomposition, Experiencer verb, External argument, Lexicon, Unaccusative",
author = "Julia Horvath and Tal Siloni",
note = "Funding Information: Acknowledgements We would like to dedicate this paper to the memory of Tanya Reinhart, whose approach to linguistics has been a source of inspiration for us. For useful discussions and help with data, we are grateful to Lior Almog, Jenny Birger, Aviad Eilam, Yoshio Endo, Julie Fadlon, Marc-Ariel Friede-mann, Roey Gafter, Alex Grosu, Nobuko Hasegawa, David Hron, Lior Laks, Yukiko Lustig, Aya Meltzer, Bruno Nicenboim, Gy{\"o}rgy R{\'a}kosi, Oren Ronen, Anna Szabolcsi, and Kyoji Tsujita. We would also like to thank three anonymous NLLT referees and Marcel den Dikken for their helpful comments. Finally, thanks to the participants of the Syntax, Lexicon and Event Structure Workshop held in Jerusalem (July 2006) and the audiences at the colloquium of the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest (October 2007) and of the Graduate School of Language Sciences at Kanda University of International Studies, Chiba, Japan (October 2008), where parts of this research have been presented. This work was supported by grant 44/05 of the Israel Science Foundation.",
year = "2011",
month = aug,
doi = "10.1007/s11049-011-9135-3",
language = "אנגלית",
volume = "29",
pages = "657--704",
journal = "Natural Language and Linguistic Theory",
issn = "0167-806X",
publisher = "Springer Netherlands",
number = "3",
}