Causative Verbs and Event Segmentation in Ewe

Autor/inn/en	Larnyo, Phillips Kofi Atsu; Glover-Meni, Nathaniel
Titel	Causative Verbs and Event Segmentation in Ewe
Quelle	In: Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 16 (2020) 3, S.1115-1126 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Larnyo, Phillips Kofi Atsu) ORCID (Glover-Meni, Nathaniel)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1305-578X
Schlagwörter	Verbs; African Languages; Classification; Attribution Theory; Syntax; Semantics; Intonation; Language Usage; Language Classification + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Africa; Language; Languages; Afrika; Sprachen; Afrikanische Sprache; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Semantik; Sprachgebrauch; Sprachtypologie
Abstract	This paper seeks to outline and describe the features of Ewe causative verbs and how they encode causative events. It explores the sub-lexical analysis of verbs' meanings since they form the basis of the classification of causal relations that allow us to explore the different imports between (sub-)events and how these events are structured, and how the participants in the events are related to the description of the event itself. It acknowledges that establishing causal connections between events and their participants is one of the principal means by which we structure our experience of our social and physical environment. Previous typological studies have focused on event segmentation into syntactic and intonational units as well as motion events. This study is descriptive in nature and focuses on causative verbs and their relational analysis with the causative events they construe. Two types of linguistic data are employed in this paper: textual and introspective. This paper identifies that just as English and other languages do, causation is at the heart of the majority of semantic analyses of verbs' meaning relevant to argument realization to involve the causal structure of the events they encode. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies. Hacettepe Universitesi, Egitim Fakultesi B Blok, Yabanci Diller Egitimi Bolumu, Ingiliz Dili Egitimi Anabilim Dali, Ankara 06800, Turkey. e-mail: jllsturkey@gmail.com; Web site: http://www.jlls.org
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Update	2024/1/01