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The previous studies on the causative alternation can be divided into the derivational and non-derivational approaches. The cross-linguistic facts show that the former fails to provide an adequate account of the relationship between the causative and unaccusative alternates. However, the latter approach also faces some problems. In this paper we abandon the former and make a revision to the latter based on the theory proposed by Huang et al.(2009). We argue that the causative and unaccusative variants share one and the same root which conceptualizes different types of events and selects different eventive light verbs, resulting in two lexical items with different ways of argument realization.
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Yang, D. (2014). A Study on the Causative Alternation from a Non-derivational Perspective. In: Su, X., He, T. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8922. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14331-6_16
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