The noncausal/causal alternation in African languages: An introduction

Domain:

natural language processing

Record type:

paper

Creator:

SebLeoPonMal

Publisher:

Ope

Host:

In this introduction to the special issue on the noncausal/causal alternation in African languages, we lay the foundation for the contributions that follow. We provide an overview of the languages that are discussed in the contributions. We present a definition of the noncausal/causal alternation, and a summary of the typological literature on this alternation. We outline two dominant typologies of so-called “correspondence types” and discuss the methodology for investigating the noncausal/causal alternation. The introduction closes with summaries of the eight contributions.

Visit

doi.org

Licenses

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

The noncausal/causal alternation in the Western Serengeti languages

This paper takes a look at the noncausal/causal alternation in a sample of about 30 verb pairs in th

The noncausal/causal alternation in Swahili

Haspelmath (1993) investigates types of noncausal/causal alternation and examines 31 verb pairs in 2

The noncausal/causal alternation in Muher (Ethiosemitic)

International audience The paper is concerned with noncausal/causal verb pairs in Muh

The causal-noncausal alternation in Kambaata (Cushitic)

Paper presented at the 10th World Congress of African Linguistics, online, 7-11 June, 2021: video re