%0 Journal Article
%T Licensing of Instrumental Case in Hindi/Urdu Causatives
%A Gillian Ramchand
%J Nordlyd : Troms£¿ University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics / Institutt for Spr£¿k og Litteratur, Universitetet i Troms£¿
%D 2011
%I University of Troms?
%X In this paper, I revisit the licensing and interpretation of instrumental case-marked nominals in Hindi/Urdu causative constructions to argue against the hypothesis that the se-marked phrase corresponds to a demoted agent. Rather, I will argue that a more unified analysis of se-phrases can be achieved through an event-structural analysis, in line with the standard interpretation of other adverbials in the syntax. Since the ¡®intermediate agent¡¯ interpretation is only possible with indirect causatives in Hindi/Urdu, the event structural analysis proposed here also has implications for the direct vs. indirect causation distinction in the syntax.
%K Hindi
%K Urdu
%K causative
%K instrumental
%K case
%K licensing
%K passive
%K by-phrase
%K adjunct
%K syntax
%K agent
%K event
%K event structure
%U http://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlyd/article/view/2230