言語類型論の分野で著名な
Martin Haspelmath教授（マックスプランク発達人類学
研究所）の講演会を以下の日程・場所で開催いたします。
平日午後となりますがぜひご参加いただければ幸いです。
堀江薫（関西外国語大学）
https://www.hum.nagoya-u.ac.jp/event/event-sub2/
題目：Causative and anticausative verb formation
講師：Dr. Martin Haspelmath（Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology）
日時：2024年2月1日（木）午後16:30-18:00
場所：名古屋大学全学教育北棟406室（4階, 図書館側
エレベーターを下りてすぐ）事前申し込み不要
アクセスマップ：https://www.sssj.jimu.nagoya-u.ac.jp/docs/20206nagoya.pdf
使用言語：英語
要旨：
For the comparative study of causative and anticausative verb forms, Japanese linguists and Japanese studies have played an important role (ever since Shibatani 1976 and Jacobsen 1985). An example of a causative formation is sizumeru ‘make sink’ (from sizumu), and an example of an anticausative is wareru ‘break (intr.)’ (from waru). In this presentation, I will focus on cross-linguistic generalizations, not on language-particular analyses, and I will argue that the observed general correspondences between (anti)causative verb formation and causal/noncausal meanings can be explained by the efficiency theory of asymmetric coding (Haspelmath 2021). This theory is a social-functional theory, not primarily a cognitive-functional theory (thus contrasting with Shibatani 2016), let alone a cognitive-naturalistic theory (thus contrasting with Alexiadou et al. 2006). I will focus on examples from English, Spanish, Indonesian and Japanese, which suffice to illustrate the range of cross-linguistic variation. Like Shibatani (2016), I will highlight the role of frequency of occurrence, but I argue that grammatical coding patterns are best explained by social-functional efficiency, rather than by cognitive transparency.