title: Nominal causal constructions: Causal chains and syncretism
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metadata.value: Say, Sergey S.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2024-04-26T22:16:04Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2024-04-26T22:16:04Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Say S. S. Nominal causal constructions: Causal chains and syncretism. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2023, 20 (4): 906–924. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2023.414
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2023.414
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/45363
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: Nominal causal constructions can involve dedicated markers (we arrived late because of
  John) or syncretic markers that can also convey concrete meanings, such as source (die from
  alcohol), goal, path, instrument/comitative, etc. So far, these patterns of syncretism have been
  systematically analyzed only for a few European languages. Based on a grammar survey of a
  world-wide variety sample of 65 languages, I assembled an annotated dataset of 113 nominal
  causal constructions. My goal was to explore whether patterns of syncretism correlate with
  specific types of causal meanings. The dataset provides evidence showing that such correlation
  does exist. In particular, syncretic markers that normally denote instruments or locations
  favour contexts where the caused event is simultaneous with the causing event (tremble with
  fear), while syncretic markers that normally denote endoints of motion favour contexts where
  the causing event is associated with future-oriented components in the causal chain. Overall,
  nominal causes tend to be construed in terms of simpler cognitive schemas, and the use of
  respective markers iconically reflects the structure of the relevant causal chains. By contrast,
  dedicated causal markers favour the meaning of indirect causation that involves speaker’s
  subjective reasoning. Typologically, dedicated markers are less frequent than syncretic markers.
  In individual languages, they are often of secondary origin and diachronically unstable. Thus,
  typologically and cognitively, dedicated causal markers are peripheral for the causal semantic
  domain, despite the fact that they are important for the European logic-oriented linguistic
  tradition.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The study was supported by the Russian Science Foundation grant “Causal Constructions in World
  Languages: Semantics and Typology” (supervisor V. S. Khrakovsky, grant no. 18-18-00472).
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Language and Literature;Volume 20; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: causal constructions
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: typology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: case
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: syncretism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: cognitive linguistics
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Nominal causal constructions: Causal chains and syncretism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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