Causation, permission, and transfer : argument realisation in GET, TAKE, PUT, GIVE and LET verbs / edited by Brian Nolan, Institute of Technology, Blachardstown Dublin ; Gudrun Rawoens, Ghent University ; Elke Diedrichsen, Microsoft European Headquarters, Dublin, Ireland.

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Causation, Permission, and Transfer; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; References; Chapter 1. Encoding transfer, let/allow and permission in Modern Irish; 1. Introduction; 2. Transfer constructions; 3. Give_permission constructions; 4. Get_Permission to achieve a particular purpose; 5. Let_allow constructions; 6. Permit constructions; 7. Discussion; References; Chapter 2. Degrees of causativity in German lassen causative constructions; 1. Introduction; 2. Other construction types with lassen in German.

3. The syntax and semantics of causatives in a cross-linguistic perspective4. Lassen constructions in German: Syntax, argument structure, meaning variants and the impact of cu; 5. Summary and conclusion; References; Chapter 3. Grammaticalization of 'give' in Slavic between drift and contact; 1. Introduction; 2. Literal 'give' in Slavic; 3. Causatives and related constructions; 4. Modal constructions; 5. Imperative constructions; 6. Peripheral constructions; 7. Concluding remarks; Corpora; References; Chapter 4. 'Give' and semantic maps; 1. Introduction.

2. Testing the notion of 'semantic distance' on 'give'3. Zeugma and intermediate uses of 'give'; 4. Gradience of acceptability of a paraphrase; 5. Analogy and semantic map of 'give' uses; 6. Conclusion; References; Chapter 5. How Europeans GIVE; 1. Introduction; 2. The category GIVE and linguistic strategies of expressing it; 3. Data and methods; 4. Quantitative analyses; 5. Summary and outlook; References; Chapter 6. Ditransitive constructions in Gan Chinese; 1. Introduction; 2. GIVE in Mandarin and Gan Chinese: A contrastive look; 3. Emergence of inverted DOC.

4. Valency increasing and preposition incorporation5. Concluding remarks; References; Chapter 7. The argument realisation of give and take verbs in Māori; 1. Introduction; 2. Give verbs in Māori; 3. Take verbs in Māori; 4. Give, take and Māori case-system; 5. Conclusion; List of abbreviations; References; Chapter 8. GIVE and its arguments in Bohairic Coptic; 1. Introduction; 2. Differential Goal Marking: n-/na= vs. e-/ero= as markers of the third argument; 3. Variations on a Theme; 4. Summary and conclusions; Abbreviations; References; Chapter 9. Giving is receiving; 1. Introduction.

2. Background on Shaowu3. Origin and polysemy of the lexical morpheme [tie53]; 4. From GET to GIVE; 5. Concluding remarks; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 10. Enabling and allowing in Hebrew; 1. Introduction: Hebrew Three Argument Dative constructions; 2. Usage-Based Construction Grammar; 3. Data and method; 4. Results and discussion; 5. Conclusion; References; Chapter 11. Low-level patterning of pronominal subjects and verb tenses in English; 1. Introduction; 2. Corpora used in this study; 3. Methodology; 4. Low-level patterning with GIVE-type verbs.

This chapter aims to study the prepositional marking and the postpositional marking of the recipient in the Persian non-canonical ditransitive alignments, which are associated respectively with a particular role that the recipient as topic or exhaustive focus plays in the information-structural representation of the benefactive event. I will argue that overriding of the theme and recipient by each other with respect to topicality, grammatically achieved by utilizing two distinct operations including preposing and left-dislocation, determines the intended grammatical marking of the recipient. M.

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