Causation in English and Hungarian

Dátum
2013-05-22T14:15:32Z
Folyóirat címe
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Kötet címe (évfolyam száma)
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Absztrakt

In my dissertation, I would like to concentrate on a special group of words, which do not require any syntactic marking in English to change their meanings into causative: the Lexical Causatives. Words like work, feed, dress, run, jump, and gallop belong to this group and besides their zero-morphological marking in causation, they share certain semantic features as well. If we consider the Hungarian verbs énekeltet ‘makes sy. sing’ and dolgoztat ‘works sy.’, we will see later that only one of them can be translated directly to English with a Lexical Causative, and that is the second one. In chapter 1, I briefly discuss what verbs can be considered to be causative, and in 2, I supply information about the behaviour of causative verbs. In chapter 3, I make the concept of Lexical Causatives clear, and in 4, I analyse them in detail. In chapter 5, elaborating on how important case assigning is considering causation is my main aim, and also defining how it is relevant to Lexical Causatives.

Leírás
Kulcsszavak
factitives, productivity, argument structure, thematic roles
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