Contrastive Studies in Verbal Valency

This paper deals with an interesting problem of circumfixed causatives in Polish, which do not behave with respect to anticausatives in the way causative structures function in other (European) languages. This subclass of causatives does not have corresponding synthetic (single-word) anticausatives, while other causatives in Polish possess such correspondents. We propose to explain this situation within the model of root based construction morphology, where causatives assume no derivational conn