Abstract
AbstractThis chapter first presents the key issues of discussion concerning the causative alternation, before proceeding to outline the theory of Voice that is further built on and developed in the rest of the book. The chapter first defines the causative alternation and offer a survey of the issues that have widely been discussed in the literature. It then turns to the introduction of the main hypothesis, according to which the causative alternation is a Voice alternation. It offers the ingredients of the model of Voice that is developed in this book, building on Kratzer (1996) and on work within Distributed Morphology. It develops a theory of Voice, according to which next to active there are three non-active Voice heads involved in transitivity alternations: Passive, Middle, and expletive Voice. The chapter finally provides an outline of the book.
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