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Preliminary Material /Masayoshi Shibatani --The Grammar of Causative Constructions: A Conspectus /Masayoshi Shibatani --Semantic Causative Types /Leonard Talmy --Remarks on What Can Cause What /James D. Mccawley --The Precyclic Nature of Predicate Raising /Frederick J. Newmeyer --Where Do Instrumental NPs Come from? /Richard H. Wojcik --On Experiencer Causatives /Noriko A. Mccawley --Idioms and Lexicalization in English /James T. Heringer --The Iffyness of Transitive Verbs /Robert Binnick --On Composite Predication in English /Michael B. Kac --The Syntax of Causative Constructions: Cross-Language Similarities and Divergences /Bernard Comrie --Lexical and Nonlexical Causatives in Bantu /Robin Cooper --Some Constraints on Bantu Causativization /Talmy Givón --On the Semantics of the Causative Construction in Hindi-Urdu /Yamuna Kachru --On the Hungarian Causative Verb and Its Syntax /Robert Hetzron --Some Constraints on Turkish Causativization /Karl E. Zimmer --Lahu Causative Constructions: Case Hierarchies and the Morphology/Syntax Cycle in a Tibeto-Burman Perspective /James A. Matisoff --The Causative Mechanism in Jinghpaw /La Raw Maran And John M. Clifton --The Concept of Inadvertence in Thai Periphrastic Causative Constructions /Rasami Vichit-Vadakan --Development of the Causative in Mandarin Chinese: Interaction of Diachronic Processes in Syntax /Charles N. Li and Sandra A. Thompson --Index /Masayoshi Shibatani.
Preliminary Material /Masayoshi Shibatani --The Grammar of Causative Constructions: A Conspectus /Masayoshi Shibatani --Semantic Causative Types /Leonard Talmy --Remarks on What Can Cause What /James D. Mccawley --The Precyclic Nature of Predicate Raising /Frederick J. Newmeyer --Where Do Instrum...
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