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id="toc-Ditransitives-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Double_causatives" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Double_causatives"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.4</span> <span>Double causatives</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Double_causatives-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Other_topics" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Other_topics"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Other topics</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Other_topics-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Other topics subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Other_topics-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Causative_(repetitive)" 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<span>Shibatani</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Shibatani-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Comrie" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Comrie"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.2</span> <span>Comrie</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Comrie-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Song" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Song"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.3</span> <span>Song</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Song-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Talmy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Talmy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.4</span> <span>Talmy</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Talmy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Indo-European_languages" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Indo-European_languages"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Indo-European languages</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Indo-European_languages-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Indo-European languages subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Indo-European_languages-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Germanic_languages" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Germanic_languages"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.1</span> <span>Germanic languages</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Germanic_languages-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Proto-Germanic" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Proto-Germanic"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.1.1</span> <span>Proto-Germanic</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Proto-Germanic-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-English" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#English"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.1.2</span> <span>English</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-English-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sanskrit" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sanskrit"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.2</span> <span>Sanskrit</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sanskrit-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Persian" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Persian"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.3</span> <span>Persian</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Persian-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Lithuanian" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Lithuanian"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.4</span> <span>Lithuanian</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Lithuanian-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Latin" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Latin"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.5</span> <span>Latin</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Latin-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Hindustani" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Hindustani"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.6</span> <span>Hindustani</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Hindustani-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Bengali" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Bengali"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.7</span> <span>Bengali</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Bengali-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Basque" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Basque"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>Basque</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Basque-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Turkish" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Turkish"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>Turkish</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Turkish-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Semitic_languages" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Semitic_languages"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11</span> <span>Semitic languages</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Semitic_languages-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Japanese" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Japanese"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12</span> <span>Japanese</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Japanese-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Khmer" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Khmer"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">13</span> <span>Khmer</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Khmer-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Uralic_languages" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Uralic_languages"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">14</span> <span>Uralic languages</span> </div> </a> <button 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class="vector-toc-numb">15.2</span> <span>Philippine languages</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Philippine_languages-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Malay" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Malay"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">15.3</span> <span>Malay</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Malay-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Guaraní" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Guaraní"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">16</span> <span>Guaraní</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Guaraní-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Uto-Aztecan_languages" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Uto-Aztecan_languages"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">17</span> <span>Uto-Aztecan languages</span> </div> </a> <button 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href="#Bantu_languages"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">20</span> <span>Bantu languages</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Bantu_languages-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Bantu languages subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Bantu_languages-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Kinyarwanda" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Kinyarwanda"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">20.1</span> <span>Kinyarwanda</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Kinyarwanda-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Esperanto" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Esperanto"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">21</span> <span>Esperanto</span> </div> </a> <ul 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title="Linguistics">linguistics</a>, a <b>causative</b> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_glossing_abbreviations" title="List of glossing abbreviations">abbreviated</a> <span class="smallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><b>CAUS</b></span></span>) is a <a href="/wiki/Valency_(linguistics)" title="Valency (linguistics)">valency</a>-increasing operation<sup id="cite_ref-Payne_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Payne-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> that indicates that a subject either causes someone or something else to do or be something or causes a change in state of a non-<a href="/wiki/Volition_(linguistics)" title="Volition (linguistics)">volitional</a> event. Normally, it brings in a new argument (the causer), A, into a transitive clause, with the original subject S becoming the object O. </p><p>All languages have ways to express causation but differ in the means. Most, if not all, languages have specific or <i>lexical</i> causative forms (such as English <i>rise</i> → <i>raise</i>, <i>lie</i> → <i>lay</i>, <i>sit</i> → <i>set</i>). Some languages also have <a href="/wiki/Morphology_(linguistics)" title="Morphology (linguistics)">morphological</a> devices (such as <a href="/wiki/Inflection" title="Inflection">inflection</a>) that change verbs into their causative forms or change adjectives into verbs of <i>becoming</i>. Other languages employ <a href="/wiki/Periphrasis" title="Periphrasis">periphrasis</a>, with <a href="/wiki/Control_(linguistics)" title="Control (linguistics)">control verbs</a>, idiomatic expressions or <a href="/wiki/Auxiliary_verb" title="Auxiliary verb">auxiliary verbs</a>. There tends to be a link between how "compact" a causative device is and its semantic meaning.<sup id="cite_ref-Dixon_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dixon-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The normal <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a> causative verb<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or control verb used in periphrasis is <i>make</i> rather than <i>cause</i>. Linguistic terms are traditionally given names with a <a href="/wiki/Romance_languages" title="Romance languages">Romance</a> root, which has led some to believe that <i>cause</i> is more prototypical. While <i>cause</i> is a causative, it carries some additional meaning (it implies direct causation) and is less common than <i>make</i>. Also, while most other English causative verbs require a <i>to</i> <a href="/wiki/Complement_clause" class="mw-redirect" title="Complement clause">complement clause</a> (as in "My mom caused me to eat broccoli"), <i>make</i> does not require one ("My mom made me eat broccoli"), at least when it is not being used in the <a href="/wiki/Passive_voice" title="Passive voice">passive voice</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Dixon2_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dixon2-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 36–7">: 36–7 </span></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886046785">.mw-parser-output .toclimit-2 .toclevel-1 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-3 .toclevel-2 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-4 .toclevel-3 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-5 .toclevel-4 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-6 .toclevel-5 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-7 .toclevel-6 ul{display:none}</style><div class="toclimit-2"><meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Terminology">Terminology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Terminology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Many authors have written extensively on causative constructions and have used a variety of terms, often to talk about the same things. </p><p><b>S</b>, <b>A</b>, and <b>O</b> are terms used in <a href="/wiki/Morphosyntactic_alignment" title="Morphosyntactic alignment">morphosyntactic alignment</a> to describe <a href="/wiki/Argument_(linguistics)" title="Argument (linguistics)">arguments</a> in a sentence. The subject of an <a href="/wiki/Intransitive_verb" title="Intransitive verb">intransitive verb</a> is S, the agent of a transitive verb is A, and the object of a transitive is O. These terms are technically not abbreviations (anymore) for "<a href="/wiki/Subject_(linguistics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Subject (linguistics)">subject</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Agent_(linguistics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Agent (linguistics)">agent</a>", and "<a href="/wiki/Object_(linguistics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Object (linguistics)">object</a>", though they can usually be thought of that way. P is often used instead of O in many works. </p><p>The term <b>underlying</b> is used to describe sentences, phrases, or words that correspond to their causative versions. Often, this underlying sentence may not be explicitly stated. For example, for the sentence "'John made Bill drive the truck'", the underlying sentence would be <i>Bill drove the truck</i>. This has also been called the <b>base situation</b>.<sup id="cite_ref-Lehmann_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lehmann-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A <b>derived</b> sentence would be the causativized variant of the underlying sentence. </p><p>The <b>causer</b> is the new argument in a causative expression that causes the action to be done. The causer is the new argument brought into a derived sentence. In the example sentence above, <i>John</i> is the causer. </p><p>The <b>causee</b> is the argument that actually does the action in a causativized sentence. It is usually present in both the underlying and derived sentences. <i>Bill</i> is the causee in the above example. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Devices">Devices</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Devices"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There are various ways of encoding causation, which form somewhat of a continuum of "compactness."<sup id="cite_ref-Dixon_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dixon-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 74–5">: 74–5 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Lexical">Lexical</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Lexical"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Lexical causatives are common in the world's languages. There are three kinds of lexical causatives, the unifying factor being that the idea of causation is part of the semantics of the verb itself.<sup id="cite_ref-Payne_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Payne-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 177">: 177 </span></sup> (English, for example, employs all three of these kinds of lexical causatives.) </p><p>On the surface, lexical causatives look essentially the same as a regular transitive verb. There are a few reasons why this is not true. The first is that transitive verbs generally do not have an intransitive counterpart but lexical causatives do. The semantics of the verbs show the difference as well. A regular transitive verb implies a single event while a lexical causative implies a realization of an event:<sup id="cite_ref-VC2002_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VC2002-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 511">: 511 </span></sup> </p> <dl><dd>(a) John kicked the ice but nothing happened to it.</dd> <dd>(b) *John melted the ice but nothing happened to it.</dd></dl> <p>Sentence (b) is judged ungrammatical because it goes against the successful event implied by the verb <i>melt</i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="One_word">One word</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: One word"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Causative_alternation" class="mw-redirect" title="Causative alternation">Causative alternation</a></div> <p>Some languages, including English, have <a href="/wiki/Ambitransitive_verb" title="Ambitransitive verb">ambitransitive verbs</a> like <i>break</i>, <i>burn</i> or <i>awake</i>, which may either be <a href="/wiki/Intransitive_verb" title="Intransitive verb">intransitive</a> or <a href="/wiki/Transitive_verb" title="Transitive verb">transitive</a> ("The vase broke" vs. "I broke the vase.") </p><p>These are split into two varieties: <a href="/wiki/Ambitransitive_verb#Agentive_and_patientive" title="Ambitransitive verb">agentive and patientive</a> ambitransitives. Agentive ambitransitives (also called S=A ambitransitives) include verbs such as <i>walk</i> and <i>knit</i> because the S of the intransitive corresponds to the A of the transitive. For example: </p> <dl><dd>(1a) <i>Mary</i> (S) <i>is knitting.</i></dd></dl> <dl><dd>(1b) <i>Mary</i> (A) <i>is knitting a scarf</i> (O).</dd></dl> <p>This type of ambitransitive does <i>not</i> show a causative relationship. </p><p>For patientive ambitransitives (also called S=O ambitransitives), such as <i>trip</i> and <i>spill</i>, the S of the intransitive corresponds to the O of the transitive: </p> <dl><dd>(2a) <i>The milk </i> (S) <i>spilled.</i></dd></dl> <dl><dd>(2b) <i>Jim</i> (A) <i>spilled the milk</i> (O).</dd></dl> <p>These are further divided into two more types, based on speakers' intuition. Some, like <i>spill</i> in (2), are primarily transitive and secondarily intransitive. Other verbs like this include <i>smash</i> and <i>extend.</i> Other verbs, such as <i>trip</i> in (3) go the other way: they are primarily intransitive and secondarily transitive. </p> <dl><dd>(3a) <i>John</i> (S) <i>tripped.</i></dd></dl> <dl><dd>(3b) <i>Mary</i> (A) <i>tripped John</i> (O).</dd></dl> <p>Other examples of this type include <i>explode</i>, <i>melt</i>, <i>dissolve</i>, <i>walk</i>, and <i>march</i>. It is this type of ambitransitive verb that is considered a causative.<sup id="cite_ref-Dixon_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dixon-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 38">: 38 </span></sup> This is given some anecdotal evidence in that to translate (3b) above into languages with morphological causatives, a morpheme would need to be attached to the verb. </p><p>Lexical causatives are apparently constrained to involving only one agentive argument. Semantically, the causer is usually marked as the patient. In fact, it is unlikely whether any language has a lexical causative for verbs such as <i>swim</i>, <i>sing</i>, <i>read</i>, or <i>kick</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Shibatani_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shibatani-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 3">: 3 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Irregular_stem_change">Irregular stem change</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Irregular stem change"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>English <i>fell</i> (as in "Paul felled the tree") can be thought of as a lexical causative of <i>fall</i> ("the tree fell"), exemplifying this category.<sup id="cite_ref-Payne_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Payne-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 177">: 177 </span></sup> This is considered a lexical change because it is not at all productive. If it were productive, it would be an internal change morphological causative (below).<sup id="cite_ref-Payne_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Payne-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Two_words">Two words</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Two words"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>English has verb pairs such as <i>rise</i> and <i>raise</i>, <i>eat</i> and <i>feed</i>, <i>see</i> and <i>show</i> where one is essentially the causative correspondent of the other.<sup id="cite_ref-Payne_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Payne-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 177">: 177 </span></sup> </p><p>These pairs are linked semantically by various means, usually involving translation. For example, <i>burn</i> as in "The grass burned" (intransitive) would translate as <i>awa-</i> in <a href="/wiki/Yimas_language" title="Yimas language">Yimas</a>, while <i>burn</i> as in "I burned the grass" (transitive) would translate as <i>ampu-</i> in Yimas.<sup id="cite_ref-Dixon_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dixon-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 40">: 40 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Morphological">Morphological</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Morphological"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There are eight different morphological processes by which a causative may be marked, roughly organized by compactness:<sup id="cite_ref-Dixon_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dixon-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 34">: 34 </span></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Process</th> <th>Basic Verb</th> <th>Causative Form</th> <th>Language </th></tr> <tr> <td>internal change</td> <td><span title="Lithuanian-language text"><i lang="lt">tìkti</i></span> <span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">be suitable</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span></td> <td><span title="Lithuanian-language text"><i lang="lt">táikyti</i></span> <span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">make suitable</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lithuanian_language" title="Lithuanian language">Lithuanian</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>tone change</td> <td><span title="Lahu-language text"><i lang="lhu">nɔ̂</i></span> (high falling) <span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">be awake</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span></td> <td><span title="Lahu-language text"><i lang="lhu">nɔ̄</i></span> (low level) <span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">awaken, rouse</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lahu_language" title="Lahu language">Lahu</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>consonant repetition</td> <td><span title="Gulf Arabic-language romanization"><i lang="afb-Latn">xarab</i></span> <span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">go bad</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span></td> <td><span title="Gulf Arabic-language romanization"><i lang="afb-Latn">xarrab</i></span> <span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">make go bad, ruin</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Gulf_Arabic" title="Gulf Arabic">Gulf Arabic</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>vowel lengthening</td> <td><span title="Kashmiri-language romanization"><i lang="ks-Latn">mar</i></span> <span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">die</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span></td> <td><span title="Kashmiri-language romanization"><i lang="ks-Latn">ma:r</i></span> <span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">kill</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kashmiri_language" title="Kashmiri language">Kashmiri</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>reduplication</td> <td><span title="Javanese-language romanization"><i lang="jv-Latn">bengok</i></span> <span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">shout</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span></td> <td><span title="Javanese-language romanization"><i lang="jv-Latn">be-bengok</i></span> <span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">make shout</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Javanese_language" title="Javanese language">Javanese</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>prefix</td> <td><span title="Amharic-language romanization"><i lang="am-Latn">gǝbba</i></span> <span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">enter</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span></td> <td><span title="Amharic-language romanization"><i lang="am-Latn">a-gǝbba</i></span> <span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">insert</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Amharic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Amharic language">Amharic</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>suffix</td> <td><span title="K'iche'-language text"><i lang="quc">-kam-</i></span> <span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">die</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span></td> <td><span title="K'iche'-language text"><i lang="quc">-kam-isa-</i></span> <span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">kill</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/K%CA%BCiche%CA%BC_language" title="Kʼicheʼ language">Kʼicheʼ</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>circumfix</td> <td><span title="Georgian-language romanization"><i lang="ka-Latn">-č'am-</i></span> <span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">eat</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span></td> <td><span title="Georgian-language romanization"><i lang="ka-Latn">-a-č'm-ev-</i></span> <span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">feed (make eat)</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Georgian_language" title="Georgian language">Georgian</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Within morphological causatives, this degree of compactness bears an important variable when considering the semantics of the two processes. For example, mechanisms that do not change the length of the word (internal change, tone change) are shorter than those that lengthen it. Of those that lengthen it, shorter changes are more compact than longer. </p><p>Verbs can be classified into four categories, according to how susceptible they are to morphological causativization:<sup id="cite_ref-Shibatani_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shibatani-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 4–11">: 4–11 </span></sup> </p> <ol><li>Inactive intransitives (<i>faint</i>)</li> <li>Middle/ingestive verbs (either intransitive or transitive such as <i>sit down</i>, <i>ascend</i>, <i>put clothes on</i>, <i>eat</i>, or <i>learn</i>)</li> <li>Active intransitives (<i>work</i>)</li> <li>Transitive verbs (<i>carry</i>)</li></ol> <p>This hierarchy has some exceptions, but it does generally hold true. For example, given a text of <a href="/wiki/Guarani_language" title="Guarani language">Guarani</a>, only about 16% of causatives apply to transitives.<sup id="cite_ref-Shibatani_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shibatani-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 5">: 5 </span></sup> For some languages, it may not apply to transitive verbs <a href="/wiki/Productivity_(linguistics)" title="Productivity (linguistics)">productively</a> and may only apply to verbs that denote abstract action or consumption of food. Additionally, within <a href="/wiki/Athabaskan_languages" title="Athabaskan languages">Athabaskan</a> family, all languages can causativize inactive intransitives, but not all of them can causativize active intransitives or even transitives.<sup id="cite_ref-Shibatani_7-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shibatani-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 5">: 5 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Two_verbs_in_one_predicate">Two verbs in one predicate</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Two verbs in one predicate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A number of languages involve a form of analytic causative that involves two verbs in a single predicate, such as <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>, <a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a>, <a href="/wiki/Italian_language" title="Italian language">Italian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Catalan_language" title="Catalan language">Catalan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Dixon_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dixon-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 35">: 35 </span></sup> For example, when French <i>faire</i> is used as a causative, the causee noun phrase cannot occur between it and the next verb.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1209690778">.mw-parser-output .interlinear .bold{font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .interlinear .smallcaps{text-transform:uppercase;font-size:smaller}</style><div class="interlinear" style="margin-left:3em"><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">je</p><p style="margin: 0px;"><abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="first person, singular" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">1SG</abbr>.<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="agent-like argument of canonical transitive verb">A</abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">ferai</p><p style="margin: 0px;">make+<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="future tense" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">FUT</abbr>+<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="first person, singular" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">1SG</abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">manger</p><p style="margin: 0px;">eat+<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="infinitive" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">INF</abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">les</p><p style="margin: 0px;">the</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">gâteaux</p><p style="margin: 0px;">cakes</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">à</p><p style="margin: 0px;"><abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="preposition, prepositional case" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">PREP</abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">Jean</p><p style="margin: 0px;">Jean</p></div><p style="display: none;">je ferai manger les gâteaux à Jean</p><p style="display: none;">1SG.A make+FUT+1SG eat+INF the cakes PREP Jean</p><p style="clear: left;">"I will make Jean eat the cakes."<sup id="cite_ref-Dixon_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dixon-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 35">: 35 </span></sup></p><div style="clear: left; display: block;"></div> </div> <p>Unlike most other <a href="/wiki/Romance_languages" title="Romance languages">Romance languages</a>, <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_language" title="Portuguese language">Portuguese</a> uses a periphrastic construction like that of <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a>, discussed below. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Kiowa_language" title="Kiowa language">Kiowa</a> uses a similar mechanism. Verbs can be compounded with the transitive verb <i>ɔ́m</i> to create a causative:<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1209690778"><div class="interlinear" style="margin-left:3em"><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">bé-k<sup>h</sup>ó-ày-ɔ́m</p><p style="margin: 0px;"><abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="second person, singular" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">2SG</abbr>.<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="agent-like argument of canonical transitive verb">A</abbr>-now-start.off-<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="causative" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">CAUS</abbr>+<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="imperative mood" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">IMP</abbr></p></div><p style="display: none;">bé-k<sup>h</sup>ó-ày-ɔ́m</p><p style="display: none;">2SG.A-now-start.off-CAUS+IMP</p><p style="clear: left;">"Go ahead and run it [the tape recorder]!" (<abbr style="font-size:85%" title="literal translation">lit.</abbr> "make it start off")</p><div style="clear: left; display: block;"></div> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Periphrastic_constructions">Periphrastic constructions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Periphrastic constructions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Some languages use a periphrastic (or analytic) construction to express causation and typically include two verbs and two clauses. English causatives prototypically use <i>make</i> (but other verbs such as <i>cause</i>, <i>order</i>, <i>allow</i>, <i>force</i>, <i>compel</i> can be used) in the main clause with the lexical verb in a <a href="/wiki/Subordinate_clause" class="mw-redirect" title="Subordinate clause">subordinate clause</a>, as in "I made him go."<sup id="cite_ref-Dixon_2-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dixon-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 35–7">: 35–7 </span></sup> </p><p>Other languages, such as <a href="/wiki/Persian_language" title="Persian language">Persian</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> have the opposite syntax: the causative is in a subordinating clause and the main verb is in the main clause, as in the following example from <a href="/wiki/Macushi_language" title="Macushi language">Macushi</a>: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1209690778"><div class="interlinear" style="margin-left:3em"><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">[imakui'pî</p><p style="margin: 0px;">bad</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">kupî</p><p style="margin: 0px;">do</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">Jesus-ya]</p><p style="margin: 0px;">Jesus-<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="ergative case" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">ERG</abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">emapu'tî</p><p style="margin: 0px;"><abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="causative" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">CAUS</abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">yonpa-'pî</p><p style="margin: 0px;">try-<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="past tense" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">PAST</abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">makui-ya</p><p style="margin: 0px;">Satan-<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="ergative case" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">ERG</abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">teuren</p><p style="margin: 0px;"><abbr class="gloss-abbr gloss-abbr-error error" title="FRUSTRATION: glossing abbreviation not found" style="font-size: inherit">FRUSTRATION</abbr></p></div><p style="display: none;">[imakui'pî kupî Jesus-ya] emapu'tî yonpa-'pî makui-ya teuren</p><p style="display: none;">bad do Jesus-ERG CAUS try-PAST Satan-ERG <abbr class="gloss-abbr gloss-abbr-error error" title="FRUSTRATION: glossing abbreviation not found" style="font-size: inherit">FRUSTRATION</abbr></p><p style="clear: left;">"Satan unsuccessfully tried to make Jesus do bad."<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p><div style="clear: left; display: block;"></div> </div> <p><a href="/wiki/Timbira_language" title="Timbira language">Canela-Krahô</a> has a combination of the two in which the causee is marked twice, once in each clause: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1209690778"><div class="interlinear" style="margin-left:3em"><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">Capi</p><p style="margin: 0px;">Capi</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">te</p><p style="margin: 0px;"><abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="past tense" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">PAST</abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">[<b>i</b>-jōt</p><p style="margin: 0px;"><b><abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="first person, singular" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">1SG</abbr>.<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="single argument of canonical intransitive verb">S</abbr></b>-sleep</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">na]</p><p style="margin: 0px;"><abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="subordinator" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">SUBORD</abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;"><b>i</b>-to</p><p style="margin: 0px;"><b><abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="first person, singular" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">1SG</abbr>.<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="patient-like argument (object) of canonical transitive verb">O</abbr></b>-<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="causative" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">CAUS</abbr></p></div><p style="display: none;">Capi te [<b>i</b>-jōt na] <b>i</b>-to</p><p style="display: none;">Capi PAST <b>1SG.S</b>-sleep SUBORD <b>1SG.O</b>-CAUS</p><p style="clear: left;">"Capi made <b>me</b> sleep."<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p><div style="clear: left; display: block;"></div> </div> <p>Portuguese also has a periphrastic construction like that of English but unlike most other Romance languages: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1209690778"><div class="interlinear" style="margin-left:3em"><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">Eu</p><p style="margin: 0px;"><abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="first person, singular" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">1SG</abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">fiz</p><p style="margin: 0px;">make+<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="past tense" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">PAST</abbr>+<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="first person, singular" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">1SG</abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">José</p><p style="margin: 0px;">José</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">comer</p><p style="margin: 0px;">eat+<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="infinitive" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">INF</abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">os</p><p style="margin: 0px;">the</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">bolos</p><p style="margin: 0px;">cakes</p></div><p style="display: none;">Eu fiz José comer os bolos</p><p style="display: none;">1SG make+PAST+1SG José eat+INF the cakes</p><p style="clear: left;">"I made José eat the cakes."<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p><div style="clear: left; display: block;"></div> </div> <p>Analytic causatives are sometimes not considered to be valency increasing devices, but they can semantically be interpreted as such<sup id="cite_ref-Payne_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Payne-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>.<sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 181">: 181 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Semantics">Semantics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Semantics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A language may have one or more different formal mechanisms for expression of causation. For languages with only one, the semantic range is broad. For those with multiple, there is always a semantic difference between the two.<sup id="cite_ref-Dixon_2-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dixon-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 61">: 61 </span></sup> <a href="/wiki/R._M._W._Dixon" class="mw-redirect" title="R. M. W. Dixon">R. M. W. Dixon</a> breaks down these semantic differences into 9 parameters, involving the verb itself, the causee, and the causer:<sup id="cite_ref-Dixon_2-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dixon-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 62–73">: 62–73 </span></sup> </p> <dl><dd>(a) Parameters that relate to the verb itself <dl><dd><ul><li>1. <b>State/Action</b>: Can the causative apply to state and process verbs or does it apply to action verbs?</li> <li>2. <b>Transitivity</b>: Does the causative apply to only intransitives, to intransitives and some transitives, or to all verbs?</li></ul></dd></dl></dd> <dd>(b) Parameters that relate to the thing being caused (the original S or A) <dl><dd><ul><li>3. <b>Control</b>: Does the causee have control of the activity?</li> <li>4. <b>Volition</b>: Does the causee do the action willingly or unwillingly?</li> <li>5. <b>Affectedness</b>: Is the causee completely or partially affected?</li></ul></dd></dl></dd> <dd>(c) Parameters that relate to the causer (the new A in a causative construction) <dl><dd><ul><li>6. <b>Directness</b>: Does the causer act directly or indirectly?</li> <li>7. <b>Intention</b>: Is the result achieved accidentally or intentionally?</li> <li>8. <b>Naturalness</b>: Does the activity happen fairly naturally or is it with effort, violence, or force?</li> <li>9. <b>Involvement</b>: How involved was the causer in the activity?</li></ul></dd></dl></dd></dl> <p>These parameters are not mutually exclusive. Many causative constructions involve the semantics of two or more parameters. However, the difference between the causatives in a language most likely will be distinguished by one of the parameters. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Relationship_between_devices_and_semantics">Relationship between devices and semantics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Relationship between devices and semantics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Animacy_of_the_object">Animacy of the object</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Animacy of the object"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There is a strong correlation between the <a href="/wiki/Semantics" title="Semantics">semantics</a> of a causative and the mechanism by which it is expressed. Generally, if a causative is more "compact" than another, it usually implies a more direct causation. </p><p>For <a href="/wiki/Animacy" title="Animacy">inanimate</a> and unconscious <a href="/wiki/Object_(grammar)" title="Object (grammar)">objects</a>, English analytic causatives (1–3) are therefore not completely synonymous with lexical causatives (4–6): </p> <ol><li>"I made the tree fall."</li> <li>"I made the chicken die."</li> <li>"I made the cup rise to my lips."</li> <li>"I felled the tree."</li> <li>"I killed the chicken."</li> <li>"I raised the cup to my lips."</li></ol> <p>Analytic causatives (1–3) imply that no physical contact was involved and therefore was done by some sort of <a href="/wiki/Magic_(paranormal)" class="mw-redirect" title="Magic (paranormal)">magical power</a> or <a href="/wiki/Psychokinesis" class="mw-redirect" title="Psychokinesis">telekinesis</a>. Lexical causatives (4–6) do not imply that meaning.<sup id="cite_ref-Haiman_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Haiman-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 784">: 784 </span></sup> </p><p>For animate and conscious objects, there is a different difference in meaning: </p> <ol><li>"He caused them to lie down."</li> <li>"He laid them down."</li></ol> <p>(1) makes sense only if <i>they</i> are animate and awake. Barring magic, (2) makes sense only if the object is inanimate or unconscious.<sup id="cite_ref-Haiman_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Haiman-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 784">: 784 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Finite_and_non-finite_verbs">Finite and non-finite verbs</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Finite and non-finite verbs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Generally, the larger the distance between the causer and the causee, the more finite the verb is. Consider the following examples from <a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a>: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1209690778"><div class="interlinear" style="margin-left:4em"><div style="position:absolute;left:1em">(a)</div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">Montezuma</p><p style="margin: 0px;"><a href="/wiki/Montezuma_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Montezuma II">Montezuma</a></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">hizo</p><p style="margin: 0px;"><abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="causative" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">CAUS</abbr>:<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="third person, singular" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">3SG</abbr>:<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="perfect" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">PERF</abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;"><i>comer</i></p><p style="margin: 0px;">eat:<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="infinitive" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">INF</abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">pan</p><p style="margin: 0px;">bread</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">a</p><p style="margin: 0px;"><abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="dative case" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">DAT</abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">Cortés.</p><p style="margin: 0px;"><a href="/wiki/Hern%C3%A1n_Cort%C3%A9s" title="Hernán Cortés">Cortés</a></p></div><p style="display: none;">Montezuma hizo <i>comer</i> pan a Cortés.</p><p style="display: none;"><a href="/wiki/Montezuma_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Montezuma II">Montezuma</a> CAUS:3SG:PERF eat:INF bread DAT <a href="/wiki/Hern%C3%A1n_Cort%C3%A9s" title="Hernán Cortés">Cortés</a></p><p style="clear: left;">"Montezuma made Cortés eat bread."</p><div style="clear: left; display: block;"></div> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1209690778"><div class="interlinear" style="margin-left:4em"><div style="position:absolute;left:1em">(b)</div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">Montezuma</p><p style="margin: 0px;">Montezuma</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">hizo</p><p style="margin: 0px;"><abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="causative" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">CAUS</abbr>:<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="third person, singular" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">3SG</abbr>:<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="perfect" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">PERF</abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">que</p><p style="margin: 0px;">that</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">Cortés</p><p style="margin: 0px;">Cortés</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;"><i>comiera</i></p><p style="margin: 0px;">eat:<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="third person, singular" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">3SG</abbr>:<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="subject" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">SUB</abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">pan.</p><p style="margin: 0px;">bread</p></div><p style="display: none;">Montezuma hizo que Cortés <i>comiera</i> pan.</p><p style="display: none;">Montezuma CAUS:3SG:PERF that Cortés eat:3SG:SUB bread</p><p style="clear: left;">"Montezuma made Cortés eat bread."</p><div style="clear: left; display: block;"></div> </div> <p>The first example implies that Montezuma was physically there and was directly involved in making Cortés eat bread. The second example implies that Montezuma was not physically there and arranged for something to happen to make Cortés eat bread, perhaps by killing all of his cattle. That could approximate the English construction "Montezuma got Cortés to eat bread." Therefore, at least in Spanish, a <a href="/wiki/Grammatical_conjugation" title="Grammatical conjugation">conjugated</a> verb implies a less direct causation.<sup id="cite_ref-Payne_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Payne-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 185">: 185 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Dixon's_prototypes"><span id="Dixon.27s_prototypes"></span>Dixon's prototypes</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Dixon's prototypes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Dixon examines this correlation <a href="/wiki/Linguistic_typology" title="Linguistic typology">cross-linguistically</a>, and summarizes his findings in the following table.<sup id="cite_ref-Dixon_2-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dixon-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 76">: 76 </span></sup> In this table, L refers to lexical causatives, M<sub>1</sub> refers to more compact morphological processes while M<sub>2</sub> refers to less compact processes, CP refers to complex <a href="/wiki/Predicate_(grammar)" title="Predicate (grammar)">predicates</a> (two verbs, one predicate), and P refers to periphrastic constructions. These processes are explained more clearly in the <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Devices">devices</a> section above. </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"> <tbody><tr> <th rowspan="2">Parameter </th> <th colspan="2">Meaning </th> <th colspan="2">Mechanism </th> <th rowspan="2">Language </th></tr> <tr> <th>Causative type 1 </th> <th>Causative type 2 </th> <th>Causative type 1 </th> <th>Causative type 2 </th></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">1 </td> <td rowspan="2">state </td> <td rowspan="2">action </td> <td>M<sub>1</sub> </td> <td>M<sub>2</sub> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Amharic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Amharic language">Amharic</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>M </td> <td>P </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Indonesian_language" title="Indonesian language">Bahasa Indonesia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Malay_language" title="Malay language">Malay</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">2 </td> <td>intransitive </td> <td>all transitive </td> <td>M </td> <td>P </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Austronesian_languages" title="Austronesian languages">Austronesian languages</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mayan_languages" title="Mayan languages">Mayan languages</a>, etc. </td></tr> <tr> <td>intransitive and simple transitive </td> <td>ditransitive </td> <td>M </td> <td>P </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Basque_language" title="Basque language">Basque</a>, <a href="/wiki/Abkhaz_language" title="Abkhaz language">Abkhaz</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">3 </td> <td rowspan="2">causee lacking control </td> <td rowspan="2">causee having control </td> <td>L </td> <td>M </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Japanese_language" title="Japanese language">Japanese</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>M<sub>1</sub> </td> <td>M<sub>2</sub> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Creek_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Creek language">Creek</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3">4 </td> <td rowspan="3">causee willing </td> <td rowspan="3">causee unwilling </td> <td>M<sub>1</sub> </td> <td>M<sub>2</sub> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Swahili_language" title="Swahili language">Swahili</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>M </td> <td>CP </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tangkhul_language" title="Tangkhul language">Tangkhul Naga</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>M </td> <td>P </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Swahili_language" title="Swahili language">Swahili</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="1">5 </td> <td>causee partially affected </td> <td>causee fully affected </td> <td>M<sub>1</sub> </td> <td>M<sub>2</sub> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tariana_language" title="Tariana language">Tariana</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">6 </td> <td rowspan="2">direct </td> <td rowspan="2">indirect </td> <td>M<sub>1</sub> </td> <td>M<sub>2</sub> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Nivkh_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Nivkh language">Nivkh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Apala%C3%AD_language" title="Apalaí language">Apalaí</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hindi_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Hindi language">Hindi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jingpaw_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Jingpaw language">Jingpaw</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>M </td> <td>P </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Buru_language" title="Buru language">Buru</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chrau_language" title="Chrau language">Chrau</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alamblak_language" title="Alamblak language">Alamblak</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mixtec_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Mixtec language">Mixtec</a>, <a href="/wiki/Korean_language" title="Korean language">Korean</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">7 </td> <td rowspan="2">intentional </td> <td rowspan="2">accidental </td> <td>M </td> <td>CP </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Khmu_language" title="Khmu language">Kammu</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>P </td> <td>M plus P </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chrau_language" title="Chrau language">Chrau</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3">8 </td> <td rowspan="3">naturally </td> <td rowspan="3">with effort </td> <td>L </td> <td>M </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Fijian_language" title="Fijian language">Fijian</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>L </td> <td>P </td> <td><a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>M </td> <td>P </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tariana_language" title="Tariana language">Tariana</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Parameter 9, Involvement, cannot be included in the table because the only two languages with this distinction, <a href="/wiki/Nomatsiguenga_language" title="Nomatsiguenga language">Nomatsiguenga</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kamayur%C3%A1_language" title="Kamayurá language">Kamayurá</a>, the morphemes are about the same length.<sup id="cite_ref-Dixon_2-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dixon-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 75">: 75 </span></sup> When a larger sample of languages show this distinction, perhaps this parameter can be included in the table. </p><p>The table shows that for each of eight semantic parameters outlined in the <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Semantics">semantics</a> section above, more compact causative processes show one distinction while less compact processes show the other distinction. For example, Parameter 6 distinguishes between more direct and less direct causation. In <a href="/wiki/Hindi_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Hindi language">Hindi</a>, M<sub>1</sub>, or the shorter morphological process, shows direct causation while M<sub>2</sub>, the longer morphological process, shows indirect causation. </p><p>Summarizing the table, Dixon has given two prototypes for causatives:<sup id="cite_ref-Dixon_2-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dixon-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 77">: 77 </span></sup> </p> <dl><dd>Prototype 1 <dl><dd><ul><li>Causer achieves the result natural, intentionally, and directly</li> <li>Causee either lacking control or being willing and may be partially affected</li> <li>Less transitive verbs affected</li></ul></dd></dl></dd> <dd>Prototype 2 <dl><dd><ul><li>Causer achieves the result accidentally, with effort, or acts indirectly</li> <li>Causee is in control but unwilling and is completely affected.</li> <li>More likely to apply to all types of verbs</li></ul></dd></dl></dd></dl> <p>All eight of the components in each prototype are never attested in a single causative. However, a single process may have two or three components. Dixon admits to these being very tentative and in need for further investigation.<sup id="cite_ref-Dixon_2-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dixon-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 77–8">: 77–8 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Syntax">Syntax</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Syntax"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/R._M._W._Dixon" class="mw-redirect" title="R. M. W. Dixon">R.M.W. Dixon</a> also outlines the syntactic possibilities of causatives in the world's languages. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Intransitives">Intransitives</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Intransitives"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Since <a href="/wiki/Intransitive_verb" title="Intransitive verb">intransitive verbs</a> have low <a href="/wiki/Valency_(linguistics)" title="Valency (linguistics)">valency</a>, virtually any type of causative construction can apply to them <a href="/wiki/Productivity_(linguistics)" title="Productivity (linguistics)">productively</a> within a language. Some constructions are <i>only</i> allowed with intransitive verbs and some languages (such as <a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Blackfoot_language" title="Blackfoot language">Blackfoot</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Gothic_language" title="Gothic language">Gothic</a>) only allow causatives of intransitive verbs, with some exceptions.<sup id="cite_ref-Shibatani_7-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shibatani-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 5">: 5 </span></sup> In all cases, the original subject of the underlying intransitive verb corresponds with the object of the derived transitive verb. All languages have this construction, though some allow a semantic difference if the original subject is marked differently (such as <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Japanese">Japanese</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hungarian_language" title="Hungarian language">Hungarian</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-Dixon_2-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dixon-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 45">: 45 </span></sup> </p><p>For <a href="/wiki/Active-stative_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Active-stative language">split systems</a>, causatives of intransitives may be treated differently.<sup id="cite_ref-Dixon_2-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dixon-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 45">: 45 </span></sup> </p><p>The syntax of a causative construction is almost always the same as some other type of sentence, such as a sentence with a transitive verb. <a href="/wiki/Tariana_language" title="Tariana language">Tariana</a>, however, is an exception to this rule.<sup id="cite_ref-Dixon_2-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dixon-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 45">: 45 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Transitives">Transitives</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Transitives"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the causative of a <a href="/wiki/Transitive_verb" title="Transitive verb">transitive verb</a>, the new causer always becomes the new A of the sentence. What happens to the causee and the original object depend on the language. Dixon shows that there are five main types of situations: </p> <dl><dd><table class="wikitable"> <caption>Causative of a transitive<sup id="cite_ref-Dixon_2-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dixon-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 48–56">: 48–56 </span></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>type</th> <th>causer</th> <th>original A (causee)</th> <th>original O</th> <th>languages </th></tr> <tr> <td>(i)</td> <td>A</td> <td>special marking</td> <td>O</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Nivkh_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Nivkh language">Nivkh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Telugu_language" title="Telugu language">Telugu</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>(ii)</td> <td>A</td> <td>retains A-marking</td> <td>O</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kabardian_language" title="Kabardian language">Kabardian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Trumai_language" title="Trumai language">Trumai</a>, <a href="/wiki/Qiang_language" title="Qiang language">Qiang</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>(iii)</td> <td>A</td> <td>has O-marking</td> <td>has O-marking</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hebrew_language" title="Hebrew language">Hebrew</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tariana_language" title="Tariana language">Tariana</a>, <a href="/wiki/Amharic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Amharic language">Amharic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sanskrit_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Sanskrit language">Sanskrit</a><sup id="cite_ref-Payne_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Payne-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 180">: 180 </span></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>(iv)</td> <td>A</td> <td>O</td> <td>non-core</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Javanese_language" title="Javanese language">Javanese</a>, <a href="/wiki/Swahili_language" title="Swahili language">Swahili</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kammu_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Kammu language">Kammu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Babungo_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Babungo language">Babungo</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>(v)</td> <td>A</td> <td>non-core</td> <td>O</td> <td>many languages </td></tr></tbody></table></dd></dl> <p>Within type (v) there are two main subtypes. Either the original A goes into the first empty slot in a hierarchy or it always takes a certain function.<sup id="cite_ref-Dixon_2-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dixon-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 54">: 54 </span></sup> </p><p>For the first subtype, there is a hierarchy involved in the language: </p> <dl><dd>subject > direct object > indirect object > oblique > genitive > object of comparison.<sup id="cite_ref-Comrie1975_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Comrie1975-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <p><a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a> is a language that follows this hierarchy. When a causative is employed, the original A does not get marked the same for intransitives, transitives, and ditransitives.<sup id="cite_ref-Dixon_2-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dixon-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 54">: 54 </span></sup> In this first example, the verb in intransitive, and with the subject slot taken, the original A becomes a direct object: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1209690778"><div class="interlinear" style="margin-left:3em"><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">je</p><p style="margin: 0px;"><abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="first person, singular" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">1SG</abbr>+<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="nominative case" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">NOM</abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">ferai</p><p style="margin: 0px;">make+<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="future tense" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">FUT</abbr>+<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="first person, singular" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">1SG</abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">courir</p><p style="margin: 0px;">run+<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="infinitive" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">INF</abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;"><b>Jean</b></p><p style="margin: 0px;">Jean</p></div><p style="display: none;">je ferai courir <b>Jean</b></p><p style="display: none;">1SG+NOM make+FUT+1SG run+INF Jean</p><p style="clear: left;">"I will make Jean run."</p><div style="clear: left; display: block;"></div> </div> <p>The following example has a transitive verb. The subject and direct object slots are filled (with <i>je</i> and <i>les gâteaux</i>, respectively) so the original A becomes an indirect object: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1209690778"><div class="interlinear" style="margin-left:3em"><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">je</p><p style="margin: 0px;"><abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="first person, singular" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">1SG</abbr>+<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="nominative case" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">NOM</abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">ferai</p><p style="margin: 0px;">make+<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="future tense" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">FUT</abbr>+<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="first person, singular" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">1SG</abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">manger</p><p style="margin: 0px;">eat+<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="infinitive" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">INF</abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">les</p><p style="margin: 0px;">the</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">gâteaux</p><p style="margin: 0px;">cakes</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;"><b>à</b></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="preposition, prepositional case" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">PREP</abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;"><b>Jean</b></p><p style="margin: 0px;">Jean</p></div><p style="display: none;">je ferai manger les gâteaux <b>à</b> <b>Jean</b></p><p style="display: none;">1SG+NOM make+FUT+1SG eat+INF the cakes PREP Jean</p><p style="clear: left;">"I will make Jean eat the cakes."</p><div style="clear: left; display: block;"></div> </div> <p>This final French example has a ditransitive verb. The subject is <i>je</i>, the direct object is <i>une lettre</i>, and the indirect object is <i>directeur</i>, so the original A is marked as an oblique: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1209690778"><div class="interlinear" style="margin-left:3em"><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">je</p><p style="margin: 0px;"><abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="first person, singular" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">1SG</abbr>+<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="nominative case" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">NOM</abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">ferai</p><p style="margin: 0px;">make+<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="future tense" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">FUT</abbr>+<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="first person, singular" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">1SG</abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">écrire</p><p style="margin: 0px;">write+<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="infinitive" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">INF</abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">une</p><p style="margin: 0px;">a</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">lettre</p><p style="margin: 0px;">letter</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">au</p><p style="margin: 0px;"><abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="preposition, prepositional case" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">PREP</abbr>+<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="article" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">ART</abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">directeur</p><p style="margin: 0px;">headmaster</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;"><b>par</b></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="preposition, prepositional case" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">PREP</abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;"><b>Jean</b></p><p style="margin: 0px;">Jean</p></div><p style="display: none;">je ferai écrire une lettre au directeur <b>par</b> <b>Jean</b></p><p style="display: none;">1SG+NOM make+FUT+1SG write+INF a letter PREP+ART headmaster PREP Jean</p><p style="clear: left;">"I will make Jean write a letter to the headmaster"</p><div style="clear: left; display: block;"></div> </div> <p>While some writers have called this hierarchical causative construction the norm,<sup id="cite_ref-Comrie1975_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Comrie1975-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 8">: 8 </span></sup> outside of <a href="/wiki/Romance_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Romance language">Romance languages</a> it is in fact rather rare.<sup id="cite_ref-Dixon_2-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dixon-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 54">: 54 </span></sup> </p><p>Most other languages are of the second subtype of type (v), and the original A takes on a set case or marking, regardless whether the underlying verb is intransitive or transitive: </p> <dl><dd><table class="wikitable"> <caption>Further divisions of type (v)<sup id="cite_ref-Dixon_2-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dixon-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 55">: 55 </span></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>causer</th> <th>original A (causee)</th> <th>original O</th> <th>languages </th></tr> <tr> <td>A</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Dative_case" title="Dative case">dative</a></td> <td>O</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sanuma_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Sanuma language">Sanuma</a>, <a href="/wiki/Apalai_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Apalai language">Apalai</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kamaiur%C3%A1_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Kamaiurá language">Kamaiurá</a>, <a href="/wiki/Turkish_language" title="Turkish language">Turkish</a>, <a href="/wiki/Japanese_language" title="Japanese language">Japanese</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>A</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Instrumental_case" title="Instrumental case">instrumental</a></td> <td>O</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hungarian_language" title="Hungarian language">Hungarian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kannada_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Kannada language">Kannada</a>, <a href="/wiki/Marathi_language" title="Marathi language">Marathi</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>A</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Locative_case" title="Locative case">locative</a></td> <td>O</td> <td>Some languages of <a href="/wiki/Daghestan" class="mw-redirect" title="Daghestan">Daghestan</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>A</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Allative_case" title="Allative case">allative</a></td> <td>O</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Greenlandic_language" title="Greenlandic language">West Greenlandic Eskimo</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>A</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Adessive_case" title="Adessive case">adessive</a></td> <td>O</td> <td>The morphological causative in <a href="/wiki/Finnish_language" title="Finnish language">Finnish</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td>A</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Possessive_case" class="mw-redirect" title="Possessive case">possessive</a></td> <td>O</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tsez_language" title="Tsez language">Tsez</a> </td></tr></tbody></table></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ditransitives">Ditransitives</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Ditransitives"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The syntactic and morphological constraints of individual language generally restrict causatives of <a href="/wiki/Ditransitive_verb" title="Ditransitive verb">ditransitive verbs</a>. The underlying phrase already contains an A, O, and <a href="/wiki/Object_(linguistics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Object (linguistics)">indirect object</a>, and so in order to accommodate a fourth <a href="/wiki/Argument_(linguistics)" title="Argument (linguistics)">argument</a>, languages employ a variety of constructions. They tend to be idiosyncratic and are difficult to group together into types. Additionally, data is patchy for many languages since descriptions of languages seldom include information of causatives of ditransitives.<sup id="cite_ref-Dixon_2-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dixon-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 56–9">: 56–9 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Double_causatives">Double causatives</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Double causatives"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Some types of causative constructions essentially do not permit double causatives, <i>e.g.</i> it would be difficult to find a lexical double causative. Periphrastic causatives however, have the potential to always be applied iteratively (<i>Mom made Dad make my brother make his friends leave the house.</i>). </p><p>Many Indo-Aryan languages (such as <a href="/wiki/Hindustani_language" title="Hindustani language">Hindustani</a>) have lexical double causatives. </p><p>For morphological causatives, some languages do not allow single morpheme to be applied twice on a single verb (<a href="/wiki/Jarawara_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Jarawara language">Jarawara</a>) while others do (<a href="/w/index.php?title=Capanawa_language&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Capanawa language (page does not exist)">Capanawa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hungarian_language" title="Hungarian language">Hungarian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Turkish_language" title="Turkish language">Turkish</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kabardian_language" title="Kabardian language">Kabardian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Karbi_language" title="Karbi language">Karbi</a>), though sometimes with an idiomatic meaning (<a href="/wiki/Swahili_language" title="Swahili language">Swahili's</a> means <i>force to do</i> and <a href="/wiki/Oromo_language" title="Oromo language">Oromo's</a> carries an intensive meaning). Other languages, such as <a href="/wiki/Nivkh_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Nivkh language">Nivkh</a>, have two different morphological mechanisms that can apply to a single verb. Still others have one morpheme that applies to intransitives and another to transitives (<a href="/wiki/Apalai_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Apalai language">Apalai</a>, <a href="/wiki/Guarani_language" title="Guarani language">Guarani</a>). All of these examples apply to underlying intransitive verbs, yielding a ditransitive verb. So far, there are no reliable data for a morphological double causative of a transitive verb, resulting in a verb with four arguments.<sup id="cite_ref-Dixon_2-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dixon-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 59–61">: 59–61 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_topics">Other topics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Other topics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Causative_(repetitive)"><span id="Causative_.28repetitive.29"></span>Causative (repetitive)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Causative (repetitive)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Yokutsan_languages" class="mw-redirect" title="Yokutsan languages">Yokuts</a>, an indigenous language spoken in California, has a morpheme, <i>-lsaˑ</i>, that indicates causation in addition to repetition. This is separate from the language's normal mechanisms of causation. </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1209690778"><div class="interlinear" style="margin-left:3em"><div>-'utoˑlsunhu'-</div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">'utuˑ</p><p style="margin: 0px;">play music</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">-lsaˑ</p><p style="margin: 0px;"><abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="causative" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">CAUS</abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">-unhoˑ</p><p style="margin: 0px;"><abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="agentive case" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">AGT</abbr></p></div><p style="display: none;">'utuˑ -lsaˑ -unhoˑ</p><p style="display: none;">{play music} CAUS AGT</p><p style="clear: left;">"one who makes (people) play music repeatedly"</p><div style="clear: left; display: block;"></div> </div> <p>This implies a single act by the causer, but multiple acts by the causee.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Causative_voice">Causative voice</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Causative voice"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Causative" title="Special:EditPage/Causative">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">April 2014</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>causative voice</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Grammatical_voice" class="mw-redirect" title="Grammatical voice">grammatical voice</a> promoting the <a href="/wiki/Oblique_argument" class="mw-redirect" title="Oblique argument">oblique argument</a> of a transitive verb to an actor argument. When the causative voice is applied to a verb, its <a href="/wiki/Valency_(linguistics)" title="Valency (linguistics)">valency</a> increases by one. If, after the application of the grammatical voice, there are two actor arguments, one of them is obligatorily demoted to an oblique argument. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Japanese_language" title="Japanese language">Japanese</a>, <a href="/wiki/Turkish_language" title="Turkish language">Turkish</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mongolian_language" title="Mongolian language">Mongolian</a> are examples of languages with the causative voice. The following are examples from Japanese: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1209690778"><div class="interlinear" style="margin-left:3em"><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">Tanaka-kun</p><p style="margin: 0px;">Tanaka</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">ga</p><p style="margin: 0px;"><abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="nominative case" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Nominative_case" title="Nominative case">NOM</a></abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">atsume-ru</p><p style="margin: 0px;">collect-<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="present tense" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Present_tense" title="Present tense">PRES</a></abbr></p></div><p style="display: none;">Tanaka-kun ga atsume-ru</p><p style="display: none;">Tanaka NOM collect-PRES</p><p style="clear: left;">"Tanaka collects them."</p><div style="clear: left; display: block;"></div> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1209690778"><div class="interlinear" style="margin-left:3em"><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">Tanaka-kun</p><p style="margin: 0px;">Tanaka</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">ni</p><p style="margin: 0px;"><abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="dative case" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Dative_case" title="Dative case">DAT</a></abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">atsume-<b>sase</b>-yō</p><p style="margin: 0px;">collect-<b><abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="causative" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">CAUS</a></abbr></b>-<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="cohortative mood" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Cohortative_mood" class="mw-redirect" title="Cohortative mood">COHORT</a></abbr></p></div><p style="display: none;">Tanaka-kun ni atsume-<b>sase</b>-yō</p><p style="display: none;">Tanaka DAT collect-<b>CAUS</b>-<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="cohortative mood" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Cohortative_mood" class="mw-redirect" title="Cohortative mood">COHORT</a></abbr></p><p style="clear: left;">"Let's <b>get</b> Tanaka to collect them."</p><div style="clear: left; display: block;"></div> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1209690778"><div class="interlinear" style="margin-left:3em"><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">kodomo</p><p style="margin: 0px;">children</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">ga</p><p style="margin: 0px;"><abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="nominative case" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Nominative_case" title="Nominative case">NOM</a></abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">hon</p><p style="margin: 0px;">book</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">o</p><p style="margin: 0px;"><abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="accusative case" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Accusative_case" title="Accusative case">ACC</a></abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">yom-u</p><p style="margin: 0px;">read-<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="present tense" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Present_tense" title="Present tense">PRES</a></abbr></p></div><p style="display: none;">kodomo ga hon o yom-u</p><p style="display: none;">children NOM book ACC read-PRES</p><p style="clear: left;">"Children read books."</p><div style="clear: left; display: block;"></div> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1209690778"><div class="interlinear" style="margin-left:3em"><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">kodomo</p><p style="margin: 0px;">children</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">ni</p><p style="margin: 0px;"><abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="dative case" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Dative_case" title="Dative case">DAT</a></abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">hon</p><p style="margin: 0px;">book</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">o</p><p style="margin: 0px;"><abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="accusative case" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Accusative_case" title="Accusative case">ACC</a></abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">yom-<b>ase</b>-ru</p><p style="margin: 0px;">read-<b><abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="causative" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">CAUS</a></abbr></b>-<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="present tense" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Present_tense" title="Present tense">PRES</a></abbr></p></div><p style="display: none;">kodomo ni hon o yom-<b>ase</b>-ru</p><p style="display: none;">children DAT book ACC read-<b>CAUS</b>-PRES</p><p style="clear: left;">"(They) <b>make</b> children read books."</p><div style="clear: left; display: block;"></div> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Causal_case">Causal case</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Causal case"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Causative" title="Special:EditPage/Causative">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">April 2014</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>causal</b> or <b>causative case</b> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_glossing_abbreviations" title="List of glossing abbreviations">abbreviated</a> <span class="smallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><b>CAUS</b></span></span>) is a <a href="/wiki/Grammatical_case" title="Grammatical case">grammatical case</a> that indicates that the marked noun is the cause or reason for something. It is found in the <a href="/wiki/Dravidian_Languages" class="mw-redirect" title="Dravidian Languages">Dravidian languages</a> <a href="/wiki/Kannada_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Kannada language">Kannada</a><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Telugu_language" title="Telugu language">Telugu</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Native_American_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Native American language">Native South American</a> language <a href="/wiki/Quechuan_languages" title="Quechuan languages">Quechua</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Northeast_Caucasian_languages" title="Northeast Caucasian languages">Northeast Caucasian</a> <a href="/wiki/Archi_language" title="Archi language">Archi</a>. It is also found in extinct <a href="/wiki/Tocharian_B" class="mw-redirect" title="Tocharian B">Tocharian B</a>, an Indo-European language. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Causal-final_case">Causal-final case</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Causal-final case"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <b>causal-final</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Grammatical_case" title="Grammatical case">grammatical case</a> in <a href="/wiki/Hungarian_language" title="Hungarian language">Hungarian</a> (and <a href="/wiki/Chuvash_language" title="Chuvash language">Chuvash</a>) expressing the meaning 'for the purpose of, for the reason that',<sup id="cite_ref-Rounds_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rounds-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 93">: 93 </span></sup> and denoting price asked of or paid for goods.<sup id="cite_ref-Rounds_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rounds-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 116">: 116 </span></sup> It is formed by adding the ending suffix <i>-ért</i> to the end of the noun, e.g. <i>kenyér</i> "bread" ><i>kenyérért</i> "for bread", e.g. <i>elküldtem a boltba kenyérért</i> "I sent him to the store for bread".<sup id="cite_ref-Rounds_21-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rounds-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 115">: 115 </span></sup> It is not affected by <a href="/wiki/Vowel_harmony" title="Vowel harmony">vowel harmony</a> in Hungarian.<sup id="cite_ref-Rounds_21-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rounds-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 111">: 111 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Literature">Literature</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Literature"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Shibatani">Shibatani</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Shibatani"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Shibatani<sup id="cite_ref-Shibatani_7-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shibatani-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> lists three criteria for entities and relations that must be encoded in linguistic expressions of causation: </p> <ol><li>An agent causing or forcing another participant to perform an action, or to be in a certain condition</li> <li>The relation between [the] two events [=the causing event, and the caused performing/being event] is such that the speaker believes that the occurrence of one event, the ‟caused event," has been realized at t2, which is after t1, the time of the ‟causing event"</li> <li>The relation between causing event and caused event is such that the speaker believes the occurrence of the caused event depends wholly on the occurrence of the causing event—the dependency of the two events here must be to the extent that it allows the speaker a counterfactual inference that the caused event would not have taken place at a particular time if the causing event had not taken place, provided that all else had remained the same.<sup id="cite_ref-Shibatani_7-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shibatani-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ol> <p>This set of definitional prerequisites allows for a broad set of types of relationships based, at least, on the lexical verb, the semantics of the causer, the semantics of the causee and the semantics of the construction explicitly encoding the causal relationship. Many analysts (Comrie (1981), Song (1996), Dixon (2000) and others) have worked to tease apart what factors (semantic or otherwise) account for the distribution of causative constructions, as well as to document what patterns actually occur cross-linguistically. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Comrie">Comrie</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Comrie"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Bernard_Comrie" title="Bernard Comrie">Bernard Comrie</a><sup id="cite_ref-Comrie_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Comrie-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> focuses on the typology of the syntax and semantics of causative constructions proper. Crucially, Comrie (and others to be discussed here) distinguish between the linguistic encoding of causal relations and other extra-linguistic concerns such as the nature of causation itself and questions of how humans perceive of causal relations. While certainly not irrelevant, these extra-linguistic questions will, for now, be left aside. Comrie usefully characterizes causative events in terms of two (or more) microevents perceived of composing a macroevent, and encoded in a single expression (of varying size and form). Formally, he categorizes causatives into 3 types, depending on the contiguity of the material encoding the causing event and that encoding the caused event. These are: 1) lexical causatives, in which the two events are expressed in a single lexical item, as in the well-discussed case of English kill; 2) morphological causatives, in which the causing event and the caused event are encoded in a single verbal complex via causative morphology, and, prototypically, morphological marking showing the status of affected arguments. Finally, Comrie discusses analytic causatives, in which the causing event and the caused event are encoded in separate clauses. </p><p>Comrie's work is also noteworthy for having brought the notion of syntactic hierarchy to bear on the typology of causative constructions. A hierarchy of grammatical relations had already been formulated to help explain possibilities for relative clause formation (first presented as Keenan and Comrie's (1972) NP accessibility hierarchy; see Croft 1990: 147), and Comrie argued that a similar hierarchy was in play, at least in some constructions, in the marking of the original A argument when a base transitive clause is causativized. The hierarchy is as follows: </p> <ul><li>subject > direct object > indirect object > oblique > genitive</li></ul> <p>Comrie's argument was, in short, that some causativized-transitive constructions mark the new A as belonging to the leftmost available slot in the above hierarchy. Dixon (2000) fleshes out a version this analysis in more detail. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Song">Song</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Song"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Presenting a typology of causatives and causation based on a database of 600 languages, Song<sup id="cite_ref-Song_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Song-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is very critical of typological work that depends on statistical inference, citing data from the Niger-Congo family that contradicts some earlier claims that "languages within genera are generally fairly similar typologically".<sup id="cite_ref-Song_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Song-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Song therefore culls data from every language for which adequate documentation is available to him, and categorizes the various causative constructions gleaned therefrom into three classes: <b>COMPACT</b>, <b>AND</b> and <b>PURP</b>. </p><p>Song employs the following terminology: </p> <ul><li>[Scause] – the clause which denotes a causing event</li> <li>[Seffect] – the clause which denotes the caused event</li> <li>[Vcause] – verbal elements of [Scause]</li> <li>[Veffect]- verbal elements of [Seffect]<sup id="cite_ref-Song_23-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Song-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 20">: 20 </span></sup></li></ul> <p>The major differences between Song's analysis and Comrie (1981) and Dixon (2000), is that Song lumps the range of lexical and morphological causatives together under the label COMPACT,<sup id="cite_ref-Song_23-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Song-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 20">: 20 </span></sup> in which [Vcause] can be "less than a free morpheme" (e.g., bound morpheme [prefix, suffix, infix, circumfix, reduplication], zero-derivation, suppletion); or "a free morpheme",<sup id="cite_ref-Song_23-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Song-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 28">: 28 </span></sup> in which [Vcause] and [Veffect] form a single grammatical unit. Most of the examples given look like serial verb constructions, and no in-depth analysis is undertaken for some of the constructions in which [Vcause] and [Veffect] are less formally contiguous. Song notes this non-contiguity, but does not undertake to explain why it might be important. </p><p>The AND causative, for Song, is any construction with a separate [Scause] and [Seffect] i.e., in which "two clauses [are] involved".<sup id="cite_ref-Song_23-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Song-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 35">: 35 </span></sup> This, in theory, could include larger, multi-clausal expressions of causal relations which many analysts probably would not label a 'causative construction', e.g.: 'It rained yesterday, so they stayed home', but the boundaries of the AND causative category are not discussed. </p><p>One of Song's major contributions to the literature<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch"><span title="The material near this tag may use weasel words or too-vague attribution. (May 2012)">according to whom?</span></a></i>]</sup> is fleshing out an analysis of his PURP causative. These are constructions which encode intended causation on the part of the causer, but which do not encode any outcome: i.e., the speaker encodes [Vcause] and causer intentionality, but remains agnostic as to whether [Veffect] was felicitously effected. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Talmy">Talmy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Talmy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Leonard_Talmy" title="Leonard Talmy">Leonard Talmy</a><sup id="cite_ref-Talmy2_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Talmy2-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> conducts an in-depth investigation of different types of causal relations. Talmy refers to these as "lexicalization patterns," a term which remains unclear to me<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch"><span title="The material near this tag possibly uses too-vague attribution or weasel words. (March 2014)">who?</span></a></i>]</sup>, given that few of the examples given in his discussion are lexical items, and most interpretations of "different types of causation incorporated in the verb root" are in fact wholly dependent on other morphosyntactic material in the clause. Let us<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch"><span title="The material near this tag possibly uses too-vague attribution or weasel words. (March 2014)">who?</span></a></i>]</sup> first examine his list of possible (semantic) causative types,<sup id="cite_ref-Talmy2_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Talmy2-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 69–70">: 69–70 </span></sup> with examples: </p> <ul><li>autonomous events (non-causative) <i>The vase broke.</i></li> <li>resulting-event causation <i>The vase broke from a ball's rolling into it.</i></li> <li>causing-event causation <i>A ball's rolling into it broke the vase.</i></li> <li>instrument causation <i>A ball broke the vase.</i></li> <li>author causation (unintended) <i>I broke the vase in rolling a ball into it.</i></li> <li>agent causation (intended) <i>I broke the vase by rolling a ball into it.</i></li> <li>undergoer situation (non-causative) <i>My arm broke (on me) when I fell.</i></li> <li>self-agentive causation <i>I walked to the store.</i></li> <li>caused agency (inductive causation) <i>I sent him to the store.</i></li></ul> <p>One question remaining to be explored is how this set of divisions usefully differs from other analysts' typologies of the semantics of encoding causal relations. Some overlap in the types of semantic information in play is immediately apparent, however: in cases of instrument causation ('the hammer broke the cup'), we would certainly expect the 'causer' to be acting directly [Dixon's criterion 6] and to be involved in the activity [criterion 9]; likewise, we would expect instances of caused agency to include more information on causee control on willingness [criteria 3 & 4]. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Indo-European_languages">Indo-European languages</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Indo-European languages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Germanic_languages">Germanic languages</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Germanic languages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Proto-Germanic">Proto-Germanic</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Proto-Germanic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Proto-Germanic" class="mw-redirect" title="Proto-Germanic">Proto-Germanic</a>, the parent language of <a href="/wiki/Germanic_languages" title="Germanic languages">Germanic languages</a> such as English, causative verbs are formed by adding a suffix <i>-j/ij-</i> to the past-tense ablaut of a strong verb, with <a href="/wiki/Verner%27s_Law" class="mw-redirect" title="Verner's Law">Verner's Law</a> voicing applied. (All of those characteristics derive from the way that causative verbs are formed in <a href="/wiki/Proto-Indo-European" class="mw-redirect" title="Proto-Indo-European">Proto-Indo-European</a>, with an accented <i>-éy-</i> suffix added to the <i>o</i>-grade of a non-derived verb.) Here are some examples: </p> <ul><li><i>*rīsaną</i> (I) "to rise" → <i>*raizijaną</i> "to raise", i.e. "to cause to rise"</li> <li><i>*frawerþaną</i> (III) "to perish" → <i>*frawardijaną</i> "to destroy", i.e. "to cause to perish"</li> <li><i>*nesaną</i> (V) "to survive" → <i>*nazjaną</i> "to save", i.e. "to cause to survive"</li> <li><i>*ligjaną</i> (V) "to lie down" → <i>*lagjaną</i> "to lay": "to cause to lie down"</li> <li><i>*grētaną</i> (VII) "to weep" → <i>*grōtijaną</i> "to cause to weep"</li></ul> <p>In English, <i>to sit</i>/<i>to seat"</i>, and in German, <i>sitzen</i>/<i>setzen</i> form pairs of resultative/causative. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="English">English</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: English"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>English uses various causative mechanisms, with varying degrees of <a href="/wiki/Productivity_(linguistics)" title="Productivity (linguistics)">productivity</a>. There are a large number of lexical causatives, such as <i>kill</i>, <i>open</i> and <i>feed</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Shibatani_7-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shibatani-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 2">: 2 </span></sup> </p><p>Additionally, there are several morphemes that can express causation. For example, <i>-(i)fy</i> can be thought of as a causative in that it is a <a href="/wiki/Derivation_(linguistics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Derivation (linguistics)">derivation</a> that turns an adjective or noun into a "verb of becoming": </p> <ul><li><i>simple</i> → <i>simplify</i> = "to make simple", "to cause (something) to become simple"</li> <li><i>object</i> → <i>objectify</i> = "to make into an object", "to cause (something) to become an object" (figuratively, that is)</li></ul> <p><i>en-</i> can also be a causative. In English, adjectives (or <i>stative verbs</i> in other languages) can express the acquisition of a quality or changes of state with causatives, in the same way as with regular verbs. For example, if there is a stative verb <i>to be large</i>, the causative will mean <i>to enlarge</i>, <i>to make grow</i>. The reflexive form of the causative can then be used to mean <i>to enlarge oneself</i>, or even as a middle voice, <i>to grow</i>. </p><p>As far as lexical causatives are concerned, English has at least 49 causative verbs. Roughly half affect only sentient beings: <i>allow</i>, <i>block</i>, <i>cause</i>, <i>enable</i>, <i>force</i>, <i>get</i>, <i>help</i>, <i>hinder</i>, <i>hold</i>, <i>impede</i>, <i>keep</i>, <i>leave</i>, <i>let</i>, <i>make</i>, <i>permit</i>, <i>prevent</i>, <i>protect</i>, <i>restrain</i>, <i>save</i>, <i>set</i>, <i>start</i>, <i>stimulate</i>, <i>stop</i>. The others can affect either sentient or non-sentient beings: <i>aid</i>, <i>bar</i>, <i>bribe</i>, <i>compel</i>, <i>constrain</i>, <i>convince</i>, <i>deter</i>, <i>discourage</i>, <i>dissuade</i>, <i>drive</i>, <i>have</i>, <i>hamper</i>, <i>impel</i>, <i>incite</i>, <i>induce</i>, <i>influence</i>, <i>inspire</i>, <i>lead</i>, <i>move</i>, <i>persuade</i>, <i>prompt</i>, <i>push</i>, <i>restrict</i>, <i>rouse</i>, <i>send</i>, <i>spur</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sanskrit">Sanskrit</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Sanskrit"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Sanskrit" title="Sanskrit">Sanskrit</a>, there is a causative form of the verb (<i>ṇijanta</i>), which is used when the <a href="/wiki/Subject_(grammar)" title="Subject (grammar)">subject</a> of a clause forces or makes the <a href="/wiki/Object_(grammar)" title="Object (grammar)">object</a> perform an action. The causative <a href="/wiki/Suffix" title="Suffix">suffix</a> <i>-ay</i> is attached to the <a href="/wiki/Verb" title="Verb">verbal root</a>, which may cause vowel <a href="/wiki/Sandhi" title="Sandhi">sandhi</a> to take place: </p> <ul><li><i>bhū</i> "to be, exist" → <i>bhāv-ay</i>; for example, <i>bhāvayati</i> "he causes to be"</li> <li><i>khad</i> "to eat" → <i>khād-ay</i>; for example, <i>khādayāmi</i> "I cause to eat" = "I feed"</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Persian">Persian</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Persian"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Persian_language" title="Persian language">Persian</a>, the causative form of the verb is formed by adding <i>ân(i)dan</i> to the present stem: </p> <ul><li><i>xordan</i> (to eat) → <i>xor</i> (present stem) → <i>xorândan</i> (to cause/make to eat)</li> <li><i>xandidan</i> (to laugh) → <i>xand</i> (present stem) → <i>xandândan</i> (to cause/make to laugh)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Lithuanian">Lithuanian</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Lithuanian"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Lithuanian_language" title="Lithuanian language">Lithuanian</a>, the causative form of the verb is made by adding <a href="/wiki/Suffix" title="Suffix">suffix</a> <i>-(d)in-</i> to the present stem: </p> <ul><li><i>skraidyti</i> (to fly) → <i>skraidinti</i> (to make to fly)</li> <li><i>sėdėti</i> (to sit) → <i>sodinti</i> (to make to sit)</li> <li><i>juoktis</i> (to laugh) → <i>juokinti</i> (to make to laugh)</li> <li><i>plaukti</i> (to swim) → <i>plaukdinti</i> (to make to swim)</li> <li><i>šokti</i> (to dance) → <i>šokdinti</i> (to make to dance)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Latin">Latin</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Latin"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The topic of causatives has not been studied much for <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a>, mainly because of its lack of productive morphological causative.<sup id="cite_ref-Lehmann_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lehmann-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 2">: 2 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hindustani">Hindustani</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Hindustani"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Hindustani_Grammar" class="mw-redirect" title="Hindustani Grammar">Hindustani Grammar</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Hindustani_language" title="Hindustani language">Hindustani</a> uses the infix <i>-(l)ā-</i> and <i>-(l)vā-</i> to make verbs causative. </p> <ul><li><i>karnā</i> "to do" → <i>karānā</i> "to have done" → "karvānā" → "to have someone make someone do."</li> <li><i>paṛhnā</i> "to read" → <i>paṛhānā</i> "to make someone read" → "paṛhvānā" "to cause someone to make someone read."</li> <li><i>hilnā</i> "to move" → <i>hilānā</i> "to have something moved" → <i>hilvānā</i> "to have someone make something move."</li> <li><i>pīnā</i> "to drink" → <i>pilānā</i> "to have someone drink" → <i>pilvānā</i> "to have someone make someone drink": "Usne naukrānī se bachchõ-ko pānī <i>pilvāyā</i>" - "She had the maid make the kids drink water."</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bengali">Bengali</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: Bengali"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The causative verbs are called <span title="ISO 15919 Indic (Bengali language) transliteration"><i lang="bn-Latn">prayōjaka kriẏā</i></span> (<span title="Bengali-language text"><span lang="bn">প্রযোজক ক্রিয়া</span></span>) in <a href="/wiki/Bengali_language" title="Bengali language">Bengali</a>. In the simplest way, the causative form of a verb can be formed by adding the suffix <span title="ISO 15919 Indic (Bengali language) transliteration"><i lang="bn-Latn">"-nō"</i></span> <span title="Bengali-language text"><span lang="bn">নো</span></span> with the verbal noun form of the given verb. </p> <ul><li><span title="ISO 15919 Indic (Bengali language) transliteration"><i lang="bn-Latn">dēkhā</i></span> <span title="Bengali-language text"><span lang="bn">দেখা</span></span> 'to see' → <span title="ISO 15919 Indic (Bengali language) transliteration"><i lang="bn-Latn">dēkhānō</i></span> <span title="Bengali-language text"><span lang="bn">দেখানো</span></span> 'to show/to cause someone to see'.</li> <li><span title="ISO 15919 Indic (Bengali language) transliteration"><i lang="bn-Latn">khāōẏā</i></span> <span title="Bengali-language text"><span lang="bn">খাওয়া</span></span> 'to eat' → <span title="ISO 15919 Indic (Bengali language) transliteration"><i lang="bn-Latn">khāōẏānō</i></span> <span title="Bengali-language text"><span lang="bn">খাওয়ানো</span></span> 'to feed/to cause someone to eat'.</li></ul> <p>From the verbal root (<span title="ISO 15919 Indic (Bengali language) transliteration"><i lang="bn-Latn">dhātu</i></span> <span title="Bengali-language text"><span lang="bn">ধাতু</span></span> in Bengali) perspective, the formation of causatives is done by adding the suffix <span title="ISO 15919 Indic (Bengali language) transliteration"><i lang="bn-Latn">"-ā"</i></span> <span title="Bengali-language text"><span lang="bn">-আ</span></span> with the verb roots ending with a consonant, and the suffix <span title="ISO 15919 Indic (Bengali language) transliteration"><i lang="bn-Latn">"-ōẏā"</i></span> <span title="Bengali-language text"><span lang="bn">ওয়া</span></span> with those roots ending with a vowel. Thus, the verbal root transformations of the two previously mentioned verbs are: </p> <ul><li><span title="ISO 15919 Indic (Bengali language) transliteration"><i lang="bn-Latn">dēkh</i></span> <span title="Bengali-language text"><span lang="bn">দেখ্</span></span> → <span title="ISO 15919 Indic (Bengali language) transliteration"><i lang="bn-Latn">dēkhā</i></span> <span title="Bengali-language text"><span lang="bn">দেখা</span></span></li> <li><span title="ISO 15919 Indic (Bengali language) transliteration"><i lang="bn-Latn">khā</i></span> <span title="Bengali-language text"><span lang="bn">খা</span></span> → <span title="ISO 15919 Indic (Bengali language) transliteration"><i lang="bn-Latn">khāōẏā</i></span> <span title="Bengali-language text"><span lang="bn">খাওয়া</span></span></li></ul> <p>These verb roots are thereafter inflected with tense, aspect and mood. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Basque">Basque</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: Basque"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Basque_language" title="Basque language">Basque</a> language has two ways to form causative verbs: by using a non-ergative transitive verb in the absolute form, or by the morphological causativization. The first method is only possible with a restricted set of verbs which excludes those whose subjects take the ergative case, such as the verb <i>eztul egin</i> (cough -- literally "make (a) cough").<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1209690778"><div class="interlinear" style="margin-left:4em"><div style="position:absolute;left:1em">ex:1</div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">Haurrak</p><p style="margin: 0px;">child.<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="ergative case" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">ERG</abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">katua</p><p style="margin: 0px;">cat.<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="absolutive case" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">ABS</abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">hil</p><p style="margin: 0px;">die</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">du</p><p style="margin: 0px;"><abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="auxiliary verb" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">AUX</abbr>:<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="third person, singular" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">3SG</abbr>.<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="third person, singular" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">3SG</abbr></p></div><p style="display: none;">Haurrak katua hil du</p><p style="display: none;">child.ERG cat.ABS die AUX:3SG.3SG</p><p style="clear: left;">'The child killed the cat'</p><div style="clear: left; display: block;"></div> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1209690778"><div class="interlinear" style="margin-left:4em"><div style="position:absolute;left:1em">ex:2</div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">Haurrak</p><p style="margin: 0px;">child.<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="ergative case" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">ERG</abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">katua</p><p style="margin: 0px;">cat.<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="absolutive case" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">ABS</abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">hilarazi</p><p style="margin: 0px;">die.<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="causative" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">CAU</abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">du</p><p style="margin: 0px;"><abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="auxiliary verb" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">AUX</abbr>:<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="third person, singular" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">3SG</abbr>.<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="third person, singular" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">3SG</abbr></p></div><p style="display: none;">Haurrak katua hilarazi du</p><p style="display: none;">child.ERG cat.ABS die.CAU AUX:3SG.3SG</p><p style="clear: left;">'The child caused the cat to die'</p><div style="clear: left; display: block;"></div> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Turkish">Turkish</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: Turkish"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In addition to very productive morphological causatives, <a href="/wiki/Turkish_language" title="Turkish language">Turkish</a> also has some lexical causatives: <i>kır-</i> "break", <i>yırt-</i> "split", <i>dik-</i> "plant", <i>yak-</i> "burn", <i>sakla-</i> "hide", <i>aç-</i> "open".<sup id="cite_ref-Shibatani_7-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shibatani-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 2">: 2 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Semitic_languages">Semitic languages</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: Semitic languages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In most <a href="/wiki/Semitic_languages" title="Semitic languages">Semitic languages</a>, there is a causative form of the verb. It is postulated that in <a href="/wiki/Proto-Semitic" class="mw-redirect" title="Proto-Semitic">Proto-Semitic</a>, the causative verbal stem was formed by the <i>š-</i> prefix, which has become <i>ʾa-</i>, <i>hi-</i> or <i>ī-</i> in different languages. </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Syriac_language" title="Syriac language">Syriac</a>: <i>kəθav</i> "he wrote" → <i>ʾaxtev</i> "he composed"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arabic" title="Arabic">Arabic</a>: <i>ʿalima</i> "he knew" → <i>ʾaʿlama</i> "he informed"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hebrew" class="mw-redirect" title="Hebrew">Hebrew</a>: <i>ṣaħak</i> "he laughed" → <i>hiṣħik</i> "he made someone laugh"</li></ul> <p>Arabic also has a causative form (Form II) created by <a href="/wiki/Gemination" title="Gemination">gemination</a> of the central consonant of the <a href="/wiki/Semitic_root" title="Semitic root">triliteral root</a>, as follows: </p> <ul><li><i>ʿalima</i> "he knew" → <i>ʿallama</i> "he taught"</li></ul> <p>The <i>ʾa-</i> form (Form IV), while it is used in <a href="/wiki/Modern_Standard_Arabic" title="Modern Standard Arabic">Modern Standard Arabic</a>, is no longer productive in many of the colloquial <a href="/wiki/Varieties_of_Arabic" title="Varieties of Arabic">varieties of Arabic</a>, which uniformly prefer Form II. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Japanese">Japanese</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=43" title="Edit section: Japanese"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Japanese_language" title="Japanese language">Japanese</a> has lexical forms and a morphological device to signify causation. Lexical forms come in pairs of intransitive and transitive verbs, where the causee is mostly inanimate. </p> <ul><li><i>ochiru</i> "to fall" → <i>otosu</i> "to drop (something) or to let fall"</li></ul> <p>However, both intransitive and transitive verbs can form the causative in a mostly regular pattern, now with the causee being mostly animate: </p> <ul><li><i>hairu</i> "to go in" → <i>hairaseru</i> "to let or force (someone) in"</li> <li><i>ireru</i> "to put in" → <i>iresaseru</i> "to let or force (someone) put (something) in"</li></ul> <p>In the context of an intransitive verb, the syntax of Japanese causatives allows a two-way distinction in the causee's willingness to perform the action. If the new object is marked in the <a href="/wiki/Accusative_case" title="Accusative case">accusative case</a> (<i>o</i>), it suggests that the causee did the action willingly, suggesting the agent allowed or requested the action rather than forcing or demanding it. However, if the object is marked in the <a href="/wiki/Dative_case" title="Dative case">dative case</a> (<i>ni</i>), it expresses the idea that the causee was forced to perform the action. With a transitive verb, this contrast is not directly visible as a clause cannot contain two noun phrases marked as accusative.<sup id="cite_ref-Dixon_2-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dixon-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 45, 65–66">: 45, 65–66 </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Khmer">Khmer</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=44" title="Edit section: Khmer"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Khmer_language" title="Khmer language">Khmer</a> has six prefixes and one infix to derive the causative form of verbs, but they vary in frequency and productiveness. The consonantal prefix <i>p-</i> is one of them: </p> <ul><li><i>coap</i> "joined" → <i>pcoap</i> "to join"</li> <li><i>cum</i> "around" → <i>pcum</i> "to gather"</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Uralic_languages">Uralic languages</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=45" title="Edit section: Uralic languages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Finnish">Finnish</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=46" title="Edit section: Finnish"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Causative forms are also found in the <a href="/wiki/Uralic_languages" title="Uralic languages">Uralic languages</a> of Europe, such as <a href="/wiki/Finnish_language" title="Finnish language">Finnish</a>: </p> <ul><li><i>syödä</i> "to eat" → <i>syöttää</i> "to feed"</li> <li><i>täysi</i> "full" → <i>täyttää</i> "to fill"</li> <li><i>haihtua</i> "to evaporate" → <i>haihduttaa</i> "to vaporize"</li></ul> <p>The causative suffix is often used irregularly and/or because of historical reasons, as the following Finnish examples: </p> <ul><li><i>olla</i> "to be" → <i>olettaa</i> "to assume", not "to make exist"</li> <li><i>kirja-</i> ancient "patterns (of embroidery or text)" but modern "book" → <i>kirjoittaa</i> "to write" ("transform into patterns of text"), not "to transform into books"</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hungarian">Hungarian</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=47" title="Edit section: Hungarian"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Hungarian_language" title="Hungarian language">Hungarian</a> marks the original subject of an intransitive differently in causative forms to convey direct causation. If the causee is marked by the <a href="/wiki/Accusative_case" title="Accusative case">accusative case</a>, a more direct causation is implied than if the <a href="/wiki/Instrumental_case" title="Instrumental case">instrumental case</a> is used.<sup id="cite_ref-Dixon_2-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dixon-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 45–6">: 45–6 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Austronesian_languages">Austronesian languages</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=48" title="Edit section: Austronesian languages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Māori"><span id="M.C4.81ori"></span>Māori</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=49" title="Edit section: Māori"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/M%C4%81ori_language" title="Māori language">Māori</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Austronesian_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Austronesian language">Austronesian language</a>, the <i>whaka-</i> prefix can be added to a verb: </p> <ul><li><i>ako</i> "to learn" becomes <i>whakaako</i> "to teach" (to cause to learn)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Philippine_languages">Philippine languages</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=50" title="Edit section: Philippine languages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Philippine_languages" title="Philippine languages">Philippine languages</a> such as <a href="/wiki/Tagalog_language" title="Tagalog language">Tagalog</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ilokano_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ilokano language">Ilokano</a>, the <i>pa-</i> prefix is added to verbal forms and to adjectives to form causatives: </p> <ul><li><i>dakkel</i> "big (adjective)" → <i>padakkelen</i> "to enlarge" (Ilokano)</li> <li><i>kain</i> "eat" → <i>pakainin</i> "to make eat, to feed" (Tagalog)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Malay">Malay</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=51" title="Edit section: Malay"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Malay_language" title="Malay language">Malay</a>/<a href="/wiki/Indonesian_language" title="Indonesian language">Indonesian</a>, causatives are formed from the prefix <i>per-</i> (it becomes <i>memper-</i> after actor focus/active prefix <i>meng-</i>, expected <i>*memer-</i> as in <i>*memerhatikan</i> found informally). While most languages uses their causative affix for derivational purposes, it has integrated to Malay verb inflection system. </p> <ul><li><i>baik</i> "good" → <i>mem<b>per</b>baiki</i> (+ local transitive suffix <i>-i</i>) "to fix something"</li> <li><i>baru</i> "new" → <i>mem<b>per</b>barui</i> (+ local transitive suffix <i>-i</i>) "to renew/update something"</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Guaraní"><span id="Guaran.C3.AD"></span>Guaraní</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=52" title="Edit section: Guaraní"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Guaran%C3%AD_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Guaraní language">Guaraní</a>, there are three causatives: one for transitive verbs and two for intransitive verbs.<sup id="cite_ref-nordhoff_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nordhoff-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In some texts, the first one is called "coactive."<sup id="cite_ref-lustig-description_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lustig-description-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <i>-uka</i> suffix (or one of its allomorphes: <i>-yka</i>, <i>-ka</i>) is added to transitive verbs:<sup id="cite_ref-nordhoff_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nordhoff-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><i>ajapo</i> "I make" → <i>japouka</i> "I make (someone) do".</li></ul> <p>The <i>mbo-</i> prefix is added to intransitive oral verbs and is replaced by <i>mo-</i> for nasal verbs:<sup id="cite_ref-nordhoff_28-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nordhoff-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-lustig-description_29-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lustig-description-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><i>puka</i><sup id="cite_ref-lustig-dictionary_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lustig-dictionary-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "to laugh" → <i>mbopuka</i> "to make (someone) laugh"</li> <li><i>guata</i><sup id="cite_ref-lustig-dictionary_30-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lustig-dictionary-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "to walk" → <i>mboguata</i> "to guide"</li> <li><i>pu'ã</i><sup id="cite_ref-lustig-dictionary_30-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lustig-dictionary-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "to go up" → <i>mopu'ã</i> "to elevate"</li></ul> <p>The <i>guero-</i> (<i>rero-</i> or just <i>ro-</i>) prefix can also be added to intransitive verbs. It has a <a href="/wiki/Comitative_case" title="Comitative case">comitative</a> meaning and translates roughly as "to cause something or someone to participate in an action with the subject:"<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><i>guata</i> "to walk" → <i>roguata</i> "to make (someone) take a walk with (the subject)"</li></ul> <p>The same root (<i>guata</i>) can take both causatives but with different meanings. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Uto-Aztecan_languages">Uto-Aztecan languages</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=53" title="Edit section: Uto-Aztecan languages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Classical_Nahuatl">Classical Nahuatl</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=54" title="Edit section: Classical Nahuatl"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Classical_Nahuatl" title="Classical Nahuatl">Classical Nahuatl</a>, in the <a href="/wiki/Uto-Aztecan_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Uto-Aztecan language">Uto-Aztecan language</a> family, has a well-developed morphological system of expressing causation by means of the suffix <i>-tia</i>: </p> <ul><li><i>tlacua</i> "he eats something" → <i>quitlacualtia</i> "he feeds him/her/it something" the causative makes the intransitive verb "eat something" into the bitransitive verb "feed someone something," requiring a <a href="/wiki/Pronoun" title="Pronoun">pronominal</a> prefix, in this case <i>qui-</i> "him/her/it")</li></ul> <p>Causativity is often used in honorific speech in Classical Nahuatl, and rather than simply "doing," the honored person "causes himself to do."<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Athabaskan_languages">Athabaskan languages</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=55" title="Edit section: Athabaskan languages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Rice makes the following points about morphological causatives in <a href="/wiki/Athabaskan_languages" title="Athabaskan languages">Athabaskan languages</a>:<sup id="cite_ref-Rice2_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rice2-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 212">: 212 </span></sup> </p> <ul><li>In all Athabaskan languages surveyed [including Hupa, for which an ample data set is presented], the causativizing morphology can causativize at least some intransitive verbs with patientive subjects.<sup id="cite_ref-Rice_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rice-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 200–2">: 200–2 </span></sup></li> <li>For intransitive verbs with agentive patients, the family shows a split: only some languages then allow morphological causativization.<sup id="cite_ref-Rice_34-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rice-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 208">: 208 </span></sup></li> <li>Koyukon (Northern Athabaskan; Alaska) was found to be the only language in the survey allowing productive morphological causativization of transitive verbs.<sup id="cite_ref-Rice_34-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rice-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 211">: 211 </span></sup></li> <li>Perhaps the presence of the direct object pronoun in the causative construction has something to do with whether the causee is human or animate or is capable of being regarded as such. When the causee or the verb cannot be or is not perceived as a potential controller, the pronoun is not found [in the Athabaskan languages surveyed].<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2014)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li></ul> <p>The semantic factor of causee control, or the degree of control that that causee wields over the effecting of the caused microevent (also discussed as parameter #3 on Dixon's (2000:62) list) and which Rice (2001) finds to be a major factor in other Athabaskan causatives helps account for much of the distribution of the Hupa syntactic causative (below). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hupa">Hupa</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=56" title="Edit section: Hupa"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Golla, in his (1970) descriptive grammar of <a href="/wiki/Hupa" title="Hupa">Hupa</a> (summarized in Sapir and Golla (2001)), describes three classes of morphologically derived causatives: </p> <ol><li>causatives from descriptive neuters with ƚ-classifier (176) <dl><dd><i>ni-whon’</i> 'be good, beautiful' → <i>O ni-(w)-ƚ-whon’</i> 'cause O to be beautiful'</dd></dl></li> <li>causatives from primary extension neuters with ƚ- classifier (76-77, 201) <dl><dd><i>na-…‘a’</i> 'O hangs' → <i>na-O-ƚ-‘a’</i> 'hang O up'</dd></dl></li> <li>causatives from primary intransitive action themes (76-77, 204) <dl><dd><i>ti-ch’id</i> 'grow tired' → <i>O-ti-ƚ-ch’id</i> 'tire O out'</dd></dl></li></ol> <p>While Golla does not generalize about the semantics of verb themes that are compatible with causative ƚ-, several preliminary generalizations can be made. Firstly, in the three cases described by Golla, O [the undergoer] is neither controlling nor agentive; O is largely patientive in all cases. Secondly, the causer appears to be acting directly on O. Thirdly, none of the examples given (including the examples above) involve the causativization of a base-transitive theme. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Central_Alaskan_Yup'ik"><span id="Central_Alaskan_Yup.27ik"></span>Central Alaskan Yup'ik</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=57" title="Edit section: Central Alaskan Yup'ik"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Mithun (2000) lists nine causatives for <a href="/wiki/Central_Alaskan_Yup%27ik_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Central Alaskan Yup'ik language">Central Alaskan Yup'ik</a> and describes each in detail.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 98–102">: 98–102 </span></sup> Here is a brief description of each: </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Morpheme</th> <th>Approximate meaning </th></tr> <tr> <td>-vkar-/-cete-</td> <td>'let, allow, permit, cause, compel' </td></tr> <tr> <td>-te-</td> <td>'let, allow, cause, compel' </td></tr> <tr> <td>-nar-</td> <td>'cause' </td></tr> <tr> <td>-rqe-</td> <td>'intentionally or deliberately cause' </td></tr> <tr> <td>-cetaar-</td> <td>'try to cause' </td></tr> <tr> <td>-narqe-</td> <td>'tend to cause' </td></tr> <tr> <td>-naite-</td> <td>'tend not to cause' </td></tr> <tr> <td>-cir-</td> <td>'let, wait for, make' </td></tr> <tr> <td>-(r/l)i -</td> <td>'become or cause to become' </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bantu_languages">Bantu languages</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=58" title="Edit section: Bantu languages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Kinyarwanda">Kinyarwanda</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=59" title="Edit section: Kinyarwanda"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Kinyarwanda_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Kinyarwanda language">Kinyarwanda</a> uses periphrastic causatives and morphological causatives. </p><p>The periphrastic causatives use the verbs <i>-teer-</i> and <i>-tum-</i>, which mean <i>cause</i>. With <i>-teer-</i>, the original S becomes the O of the main clause, leaving the original verb in the infinitive, just like in English:<sup id="cite_ref-Kimenyi_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kimenyi-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 160–1">: 160–1 </span></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1209690778"><div class="interlinear" style="margin-left:4em"><div style="position:absolute;left:1em">(1a.)</div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">Ábáana</p><p style="margin: 0px;">children</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;"><b>b-a-gii-ye</b>.</p><p style="margin: 0px;"><b>they-<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="past tense" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">PST</abbr>-go-<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="aspect" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">ASP</abbr></b></p></div><p style="display: none;">Ábáana <b>b-a-gii-ye</b>.</p><p style="display: none;">children <b>they-PST-go-ASP</b></p><p style="clear: left;">"The children <b>left</b>."</p><div style="clear: left; display: block;"></div> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1209690778"><div class="interlinear" style="margin-left:4em"><div style="position:absolute;left:1em">(1b.)</div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">Umugabo</p><p style="margin: 0px;">man</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">y-a-tee-ye</p><p style="margin: 0px;">he-<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="past tense" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">PST</abbr>-cause-<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="aspect" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">ASP</abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">ábáana</p><p style="margin: 0px;">children</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;"><b>ku-geend-a</b>.</p><p style="margin: 0px;"><b><abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="infinitive" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">INF</abbr>-go-<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="aspect" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">ASP</abbr></b></p></div><p style="display: none;">Umugabo y-a-tee-ye ábáana <b>ku-geend-a</b>.</p><p style="display: none;">man he-PST-cause-ASP children <b>INF-go-ASP</b></p><p style="clear: left;">"The man caused the children <b>to go</b>.</p><div style="clear: left; display: block;"></div> </div> <p>With <i>-túm-</i>, the original S remains in the embedded clause and the original verb is still marked for person and tense:<sup id="cite_ref-Kimenyi_36-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kimenyi-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 161–2">: 161–2 </span></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1209690778"><div class="interlinear" style="margin-left:4em"><div style="position:absolute;left:1em">(2a.)</div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;"><b>N-a-andits-e</b></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><b>I-<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="past tense" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">PST</abbr>-write-<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="aspect" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">ASP</abbr></b></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">amábárúwa</p><p style="margin: 0px;">letters</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">meênshi.</p><p style="margin: 0px;">many</p></div><p style="display: none;"><b>N-a-andits-e</b> amábárúwa meênshi.</p><p style="display: none;"><b>I-PST-write-ASP</b> letters many</p><p style="clear: left;">"<b>I wrote</b> many letters.</p><div style="clear: left; display: block;"></div> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1209690778"><div class="interlinear" style="margin-left:4em"><div style="position:absolute;left:1em">(2b.)</div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">Umukoôbwa</p><p style="margin: 0px;">girl</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">y-a-tum-ye</p><p style="margin: 0px;">she-<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="past tense" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">PST</abbr>-cause-<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="aspect" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">ASP</abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;"><b>n-á-andik-a</b></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><b>I-<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="past tense" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">PST</abbr>-write-<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="aspect" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">ASP</abbr></b></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">amábárúwa</p><p style="margin: 0px;">letters</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">meênshi.</p><p style="margin: 0px;">many</p></div><p style="display: none;">Umukoôbwa y-a-tum-ye <b>n-á-andik-a</b> amábárúwa meênshi.</p><p style="display: none;">girl she-PST-cause-ASP <b>I-PST-write-ASP</b> letters many</p><p style="clear: left;">"The girl caused <b>me to write</b> many letters."</p><div style="clear: left; display: block;"></div> </div> <p>Derivational causatives use the <i>-iish-</i> morpheme, which can be applied to intransitives (3) or transitives (4):<sup id="cite_ref-Kimenyi_36-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kimenyi-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 164">: 164 </span></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1209690778"><div class="interlinear" style="margin-left:4em"><div style="position:absolute;left:1em">(3a.)</div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">Ábáana</p><p style="margin: 0px;">children</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">ba-rá-ryáam-ye.</p><p style="margin: 0px;">they-<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="present tense" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">PRES</abbr>-sleep-<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="aspect" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">ASP</abbr></p></div><p style="display: none;">Ábáana ba-rá-ryáam-ye.</p><p style="display: none;">children they-PRES-sleep-ASP</p><p style="clear: left;">"The children are sleeping."</p><div style="clear: left; display: block;"></div> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1209690778"><div class="interlinear" style="margin-left:4em"><div style="position:absolute;left:1em">(3b.)</div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">Umugóre</p><p style="margin: 0px;">woman</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">a-ryaam-<b>iish</b>-ije</p><p style="margin: 0px;">she-sleep-<b><abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="causative" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">CAUS</abbr></b>-<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="aspect" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">ASP</abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">ábáana</p><p style="margin: 0px;">children</p></div><p style="display: none;">Umugóre a-ryaam-<b>iish</b>-ije ábáana</p><p style="display: none;">woman she-sleep-<b>CAUS</b>-ASP children</p><p style="clear: left;">"The woman is <b>putting</b> the children to sleep."</p><div style="clear: left; display: block;"></div> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1209690778"><div class="interlinear" style="margin-left:4em"><div style="position:absolute;left:1em">(4a.)</div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">Ábáana</p><p style="margin: 0px;">children</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">ba-ra-som-a</p><p style="margin: 0px;">they-<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="present tense" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">PRES</abbr>-read-<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="aspect" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">ASP</abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">ibitabo.</p><p style="margin: 0px;">books</p></div><p style="display: none;">Ábáana ba-ra-som-a ibitabo.</p><p style="display: none;">children they-PRES-read-ASP books</p><p style="clear: left;">"The children are reading the books."</p><div style="clear: left; display: block;"></div> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1209690778"><div class="interlinear" style="margin-left:4em"><div style="position:absolute;left:1em">(4b.)</div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">Umugabo</p><p style="margin: 0px;">man</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">a-ra-som-<b>eesh</b>-a</p><p style="margin: 0px;">he-<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="present tense" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">PRES</abbr>-read-<b><abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="causative" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">CAUS</abbr></b>-<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="aspect" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">ASP</abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">ábáana</p><p style="margin: 0px;">children</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">ibitabo.</p><p style="margin: 0px;">books</p></div><p style="display: none;">Umugabo a-ra-som-<b>eesh</b>-a ábáana ibitabo.</p><p style="display: none;">man he-PRES-read-<b>CAUS</b>-ASP children books</p><p style="clear: left;">"The man is <b>making</b> the children read the books."</p><div style="clear: left; display: block;"></div> </div> <p>The suffix <i>-iish-</i> implies an indirect causation (similar to English <i>have</i> in "I had him write a paper"), but other causatives imply a direct causation (similar to English <i>make</i> in "I made him write a paper").<sup id="cite_ref-Kimenyi_36-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kimenyi-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 166">: 166 </span></sup> </p><p>One of the more direct causation devices is the deletion of what is called a "neutral" morpheme <i>-ik-</i>, which indicates state or potentiality. Stems with the <i>-ik-</i> removed can take <i>-iish</i>, but the causation is then less direct:<sup id="cite_ref-Kimenyi_36-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kimenyi-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 166">: 166 </span></sup> </p> <dl><dd><table> <tbody><tr> <td><i>-mének-</i></td> <td>"be broken"</td> <td><i>-mén-</i></td> <td>"break"</td> <td>-<i>méneesh-</i></td> <td>"have (something) broken" </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>-sáduk-</i></td> <td>"be cut"</td> <td><i>-sátur-</i></td> <td>"cut"</td> <td><i>-sátuz-</i></td> <td>"have (something) cut" </td></tr></tbody></table></dd></dl> <p>Another direct causation maker is <i>-y-</i> which is used for some verbs:<sup id="cite_ref-Kimenyi_36-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kimenyi-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 167">: 167 </span></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1209690778"><div class="interlinear" style="margin-left:4em"><div style="position:absolute;left:1em">(5a.)</div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">Ámáazi</p><p style="margin: 0px;">water</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">a-rá-shyúuh-a.</p><p style="margin: 0px;">it-<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="present tense" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">PRES</abbr>-be warm-<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="aspect" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">ASP</abbr></p></div><p style="display: none;">Ámáazi a-rá-shyúuh-a.</p><p style="display: none;">water {it-PRES-be warm-ASP}</p><p style="clear: left;">"The water is being warmed."</p><div style="clear: left; display: block;"></div> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1209690778"><div class="interlinear" style="margin-left:4em"><div style="position:absolute;left:1em">(5b.)</div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">Umugóre</p><p style="margin: 0px;">woman</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">a-rá-shyúush-<b>y</b>-a</p><p style="margin: 0px;">she-<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="present tense" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">PRES</abbr>-warm-<b><abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="causative" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">CAUS</abbr></b>-<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="aspect" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">ASP</abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">ámáazi.</p><p style="margin: 0px;">water</p></div><p style="display: none;">Umugóre a-rá-shyúush-<b>y</b>-a ámáazi.</p><p style="display: none;">woman she-PRES-warm-<b>CAUS</b>-ASP water</p><p style="clear: left;">"The woman is <b>warming</b> the water."</p><div style="clear: left; display: block;"></div> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1209690778"><div class="interlinear" style="margin-left:4em"><div style="position:absolute;left:1em">(5c.)</div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">Umugabo</p><p style="margin: 0px;">man</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">a-rá-shyúuh-<b>iish</b>-a</p><p style="margin: 0px;">he-<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="present tense" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">PRES</abbr>-warm-<b><abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="causative" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">CAUS</abbr></b>-<abbr class="gloss-abbr" title="aspect" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; text-transform: lowercase;">ASP</abbr></p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">umugóre</p><p style="margin: 0px;">woman</p></div><div style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.3em;margin-right: 1em;"><p style="margin: 0px;font-style: italic;">ámáazi.</p><p style="margin: 0px;">water.</p></div><p style="display: none;">Umugabo a-rá-shyúuh-<b>iish</b>-a umugóre ámáazi.</p><p style="display: none;">man he-PRES-warm-<b>CAUS</b>-ASP woman water.</p><p style="clear: left;">"The man is <b>having</b> the woman warm the water.</p><div style="clear: left; display: block;"></div> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Esperanto">Esperanto</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=60" title="Edit section: Esperanto"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Esperanto" title="Esperanto">Esperanto</a>, the suffix <i>-ig-</i> can be added to any kind of word: </p> <ul><li><i>morti</i> "to die" → <i>mortigi</i> "to kill"</li> <li><i>pura</i> "clean (adj)" → <i>purigi</i> "to clean"</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=61" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Payne-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Payne_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Payne_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Payne_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Payne_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Payne_1-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Payne_1-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Payne_1-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Payne_1-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Payne, Thomas E. 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Heinle & Heinle. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780838447253/page/646">646</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8384-4725-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-8384-4725-2"><bdi>0-8384-4725-2</bdi></a>. <q>...verbs like <i>let</i>, <i>make</i>, and <i>have</i> together with their complements are often called <i>causitive</i> verbs or constructions since one agent is (to one degree or another) 'causing' another to act.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Grammar+Book%3A+An+ESL%2FEFL+teacher%27s+course%2C+2nd+ed.&rft.pages=646&rft.pub=Heinle+%26+Heinle&rft.date=1999&rft.isbn=0-8384-4725-2&rft.au=Celce-Murcia%2C+Marianne&rft.au=Larsen-Freeman%2C+Diane&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fisbn_9780838447253%2Fpage%2F646&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACausative" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Valency-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Valency_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Valency_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Valency_4-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/R._M._W._Dixon" class="mw-redirect" title="R. 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In <i>Changing Valency: Case Studies in Transitivity</i>, Dixon, R.M.W. and Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, eds: 1–28. New York: Cambridge University Press.</li> <li>Goertz, G. et al. 2006. "Use of causatives in Navajo: Syntax and morphology." In Santa Barbara Papers in Linguistics, Volume 18: Proceedings from the Ninth Workshop on American Indigenous Languages.</li> <li>Huang, S. and Lily I-Wen Su. 2005. "Iconicity as Evidenced in Saisiyat Linguistic Coding of Causative Events." Oceanic Linguistics, Vol. 44, No. 2 (Dec., 2005): 341–356.</li> <li>Song, J.J. (2001) Linguistic Typology: Morphology and Syntax. Harlow and London: Pearson (Longman).</li> <li>Talmy, L. 2000. Toward a Cognitive Semantics Volume 1: Concept Structuring Systems. Cambridge: MIT Press.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Causatives_of_a_specific_language">Causatives of a specific language</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Causative&action=edit&section=64" title="Edit section: Causatives of a specific language"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Kinyarwanda: Kimenyi, Alexandre (1980). <i>A Relational Grammar of Kinyarwanda</i>. 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