Table of Contents

1: Bridget Copley and Fabienne Martin: IntroductionFrom Causal Theories to Causal Meanings2: Bridget Copley and Phillip Wolff: Theories of causation can and should inform linguistic theory3: Richmond H. Thomason: Formal semantics for causal constructions4: Max Kistler: Two types of causal statements5: Phillip Wolff: Force dynamics in causal meaning and reasoning6: Bridget Copley and Heidi Harley: Eliminating causative entailments with the force-dynamic framework: The case of the Tohono O'odham frustrative cem7: Tatjana Ilic: Modality and causation: Two sides of the same coin8: Paul Egré: Intentional action and the semantics of gradable expressions (on the Knobe Effect)From Causal Meanings to Causal Structures9: Fabienne Martin and Florian Schäfer: Causation at the syntax-semantics interface10: Gillian Ramchand: Causal chains and instrumental case in Hindi/Urdu11: Sergei Tatevosov and Ekaterina Lyutikova: Causativization and event structure12: Nigel Duffield: Inadvertent cause and the unergative-unaccusative split in Vietnamese and English13: Raffaella Folli: Causatives and inchoatives in the lexicon and the syntax: evidence from Italian14: Anja Latrouite: Event-structural prominence and forces in verb meaning shift

About the Author

Bridget Copley is a chargée de recherche at the laboratory Structures Formelles du Langage, jointly affiliated with the Centre Nationale de la Recherche and the Université 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 für Linguistik of the University of Stuttgart. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics in 2006 from the Université libre de Bruxelles, and is the author of Les Prédicats statifs (De Boeck, 2009). Her research interests include lexical semantics, aspect and the semantics/pragmatics interface.