Pour une cartographie des causatifs en anglais contemporain

This paper is an attempt to formalize the micro-system of the 4 causative verbs (i.e. make, have, cause and get) in modern English. The syntax of causative constructions is ambiguous between control and raising, which raises the problem of the semantic roles of both agent and theme arguments. We arg...

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Main Author: Jean-Charles Khalifa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cercle linguistique du Centre et de l'Ouest - CerLICO 2006-06-01
Series:Corela
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/corela/429