Constraints on the causative derivation in Early Vedic: Evidence for a diachronic typology of transitivity

• Authors: Leonid Kulikov
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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 will 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 will also briefly discuss some theoretical implications of this analysis of causative verbs in Vedic for a diachronic typology of transitivity.

Keywords

EN

causative; diachrony; transitivity; typology; Vedic

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Journal: Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 49
• Pages: 79-101

Dates

published

2013

received

2012-06-02

revised

2012-11-09

accepted

2013-02-05

Contributors

author

Leonid Kulikov

• Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/psicl-2013-0003