Authors:	Schneider, Ulrike
Title:	Reflexive analytic causatives : a diachronic analysis of transitivity parameters
Online publication date:	12-Mar-2024
Year of first publication:	2023
Language:	english
Abstract:	The present study is an exploration of the field of analytic causatives. It focuses on reflexive constructions with bring, cause, make and force. The analysis builds on Mondorf & Schneider's (2016) finding that causative bring has specialized to modal-negated-reflexive uses. It explores whether this emerging constraint reduces overlap with other causatives. A second focal point is on the nature of the constructions’ constraints. The article applies Hopper & Thompson's (1980) concept of transitivity as a cline. Employing the same 76-million-word corpus as Mondorf & Schneider (2016), which consists of fiction from the fifteenth to the twentieth century, the article shows that reflexive uses of analytic causatives have almost quadrupled over the past 500 years. Results confirm that bring is the only reflexive causative strongly associated with modal and negated contexts. Furthermore, some of the constructions display characteristic transitivity profiles.
DDC:	400 Sprache 400 Language 420 Englisch 420 English
Institution:	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Department:	FB 05 Philosophie und Philologie
Place:	Mainz
ROR:	https://ror.org/023b0x485
DOI:	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-10185
Version:	Published version
Publication type:	Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Document type specification:	Scientific article
License:	CC BY
Information on rights of use:	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Journal:	English language and linguistics 27 4
Pages or article number:	789 813
Publisher:	Cambridge Univ. Press
Publisher place:	Cambridge
Issue date:	2023
ISSN:	1469-4379
Publisher DOI:	10.1017/S136067432300028X
Appears in collections:	DFG-491381577-H