Causation in Grammatical Structures

Bridget Copley is a chargee de recherche at the laboratory Structures Formelles du Langage, jointly affiliated with the Centre Nationale de la Recherche and the Universite Paris 8. Her research interests include the semantics and syntax-semantics interface of causation, aspect, futures, and modality. Copley received her Ph.D. in Linguistics and Philosophy in 2002 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is the author of The Semantics of the Future (Routledge, 2009).
Fabienne Martin is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institut fur Linguistik of the University of Stuttgart. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics in 2006 from the Universite libre de Bruxelles, and is the author of Les Predicats statifs (De Boeck, 2009). Her research interests include lexical semantics, aspect and the semantics/pragmatics interface.

1. Introduction, Bridget Copley and Fabienne Martin
From Causal Theories to Causal Meanings
2. Theories of causation can and should inform linguistic theory, Bridget Copley and Phillip Wolff
3. Formal semantics for causal constructions, Richmond H. Thomason
4. Two types of causal statements, Max Kistler
5. Force dynamics in causal meaning and reasoning, Phillip Wolff
6. Eliminating causative entailments with the force-dynamic framework: The case of the Tohono O'odham frustrative cem, Bridget Copley and Heidi Harley
7. Modality and causation: Two sides of the same coin, Tatjana Ilic
8. Intentional action and the semantics of gradable expressions (on the Knobe Effect), Paul Egre
From Causal Meanings to Causal Structures
9. Causation at the syntax-semantics interface, Fabienne Martin and Florian Schafer
10. Causal chains and instrumental case in Hindi/Urdu, Gillian Ramchand
11. Causativization and event structure, Sergei Tatevosov and Ekaterina Lyutikova
12. Inadvertent cause and the unergative-unaccusative split in Vietnamese and English, Nigel Duffield
13. Causatives and inchoatives in the lexicon and the syntax: evidence from Italian, Raffaella Folli
14. Event-structural prominence and forces in verb meaning shift, Anja Latrouite