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Causative voice

Index of SIL publications on Causative voice listed by country.

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General works

• Alves, Mark J. 2001. "Distributional properties of causative verbs in some Mon-Khmer languages."  
• Bishop, Nancy M. 1986. A typology of causative constructions: an update.
• Bishop, Nancy M. 1990. "A typology of causatives, pragmatically speaking."
• Bishop, Nancy M. 1992. "A typology of causatives, pragmatically speaking."  

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Ethiopia

• Unseth, Peter. 1997. "An archaic Surmic causative prefix."
• Unseth, Peter. 1998. "Two old causative affixes in Surmic languages."

Sudan

• Unseth, Peter. 1997. "An archaic Surmic causative prefix."

Americas

Mexico

• Merrill, Elizabeth D. 2008. "The formation of causatives in Tilquiapan Zapotec."  

Peru

• Wise, Mary Ruth. 1989. "Afijos causativos y comitativos en idiomas de la familia arawaka maipurán."

Asia

Indonesia

• Evans, Donna. 1996. "Causation in Kaili."

Malaysia

• Kroeger, Paul R. 1988. "Case marking in Kimaragang causative constructions."

Myanmar

• Bedell, George. 1997. "Causatives and clause union in Lai (Chin)."  

Philippines

• Pebley, Carol Jean. 1998. "Semantic intransitivity, causation and the affix ‘m-’ in Kagayanen."

Thailand

• Ratanakul, Suriya. 1981. "Transitivity and causation in Sgaw Karen."
• Thomas, Dorothy. 1984. "The deliberate causative in Surin Khmer."