R. M. W. Dixon's scientific contributions
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Publication (1)
This book provides a general perspective on valency-changing mechanisms - passives, antipassives, causatives, applicatives - in the languages of the world. It contains a comprehensive typology of causatives by R. M. W. Dixon, and detailed descriptions of valency-changing mechanisms in ten individual languages by leading scholars, based on original...
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... As some causatives are known to have assistive (i.e., helping) meaning extensions (see especially in the typological literature, such as Kulikov 1993, Dixon 2000, Shibatani and Pardeshi 2002, but also Lyutikova and Tatevosov 2018, Myler and Mali 2021, there is a possibility that the assistive is a type of causative. However, the assistive does not contain a causing event ( §3.2.1), and when the assistive is followed by the causative, the assistee is dative marked -a case-marking pattern not allowed for causatives of causatives ( §3.2.2). ...
