Combinatory conditions on Halkomelem causatives

Bibliographic Data

ID3988185
AuthorsDonna B Gerdts (corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume42
Issue4
Publication date2004-01-08
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLinguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ling.2004.025
OpenAlexW2054805299
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited11

Previous treatments of Halkomelem causatives have posited various conditions on their formation, including restricting causatives to intransitive bases and banning double causatives. While these conditions account for the basic facts, more elaborate data involving lexical suffixes and reflexive causatives show that they can in fact be violated. This observation leads to an alternative view of conditions on causatives. I propose a valence-counting system that requires the output of a string of derivational rules to total a valence number that allows the noun phrases to correctly map to the inflectional system of the language. An important aspect of this analysis is that intermediate valence totals are not monitored. For example, adding a causative to a transitive, which would violate an intransitive base condition, does not automatically result in an ungrammatical form. Rather, later valence-decreasing morphology can save the form. This simple valence-totaling system accounts for basic as well as complex causatives

Causative · Linguistics · Verb · Communication · Computer Science · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Topic Modeling

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