Seifart, Frank 2012

Seifart, Frank. 2012. Causative Marking in Resı́garo (Arawakan): A Descriptive and Comparative Perspective. International Journal of American Linguistics 78(3). 369–384. doi: 10.1086/665917.

@article{472365,
  author         = {Seifart, Frank},
  journal        = {International Journal of American Linguistics},
  number         = {3},
  pages          = {369–384},
  title          = {Causative Marking in Resı́garo (Arawakan): A Descriptive and Comparative Perspective},
  url            = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/665917},
  volume         = {78},
  year           = {2012},
  abstract       = {The aim of this paper is twofold: The first and major aim is to contribute to the grammatical description of the underdescribed and severely endangered Arawakan language Resı́garo, spoken in Colombia and Peru, by providing a description of the intricate morphophonology and of the morphosyntactic patterns of causative marking in this language. In doing so, this paper also treats some general grammatical characteristics of the language, such as tone and argument marking. The Resı́garo causative marker is used to increase the valency of both intransitive and transitive verbs. The causative objects of causativized verbs are the only syntactically obligatory objects in the language. The second, more minor aim of this paper is a brief comparison of the Resı́garo causative marker with cognate forms in the related Arawakan languages Achagua, Piapoco, and Tariana. This reveals syntactic and semantic parallels that point to a close association of causativization and transitivity in this group of languages. This type of causatives contrasts with so-called sociative causatives of Southern Amazonia.},
  citekeys       = {cldf9:63874dd0b669d93df48289a49d588795},
  doi            = {10.1086/665917},
  hhtype         = {grammar (computerized assignment from "descriptive")},
  inlg           = {English [eng]},
  isreferencedby = {cldf9},
  issn           = {0020-7071},
  lgcode         = {Resígaro [resi1247]},
  local_ids      = {98402},
  macro_area     = {South America},
  src            = {cldf, haspelmath}
}