Questionnaire on noncausal-causal verb pairs (based on Haspelmath 1993:97)

This sentence questionnaire was created by the four members of the research project ‘To break or be broken — A study of valency-decreasing alternations in East Ruvu Bantu languages’. The project aims to study valency-decreasing alternations in Kagulu, Kami, Kutu, Kwere, Luguru and Zalamo, six underdescribed East Ruvu Bantu languages spoken in Tanzania. The questionnaire is based on the word list published in Haspelmath (1993), which consists of 31 noncausal-causal verb pairs and aims to study the coding of the noncausal-causal alternation. The questionnaire is tailored to the specific linguistic and cultural area of the research project, and is not intended to be of use for all languages or linguistic communities. The questionnaire is entirely bilingual English-Swahili. TL stands for ‘target language’.