Questions tagged [causative]
For questions about the causative of a verb. Depending on the language, it can be expressed by a derivation, a periphrastic construction, or an entirely different verb.
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Causative classes in Cantonese
Recently me and WavesWashSands had a conversation about Cantonese and it's causatives. zing2, gaau2, tam3, gik1, haak3 etc. A lot of these look like they are just based on classes of moods.
But are ...
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Data on causatives in Russian and Turkish needed!
I'm working on a comparative syntactic project on the notion 'causative', either morphologically marked or non-marked. References like Haspelmath (1987) provide some (brief) data on the notion of ...
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Is it a causative morpheme or a modal morpheme?
Let us take the verb 'get', we can say both:
1- Someone gets to take something
2- Someone gets someone to take something
In the 1st sentence, 'get' is a modal morpheme, but in the other sentence '...
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Does German have periphrastic causative constructions?
Wals chapter 110: Periphrastic Causative Constructions coded German as "sequential but no purposive".
Is there an example of periphrastic causative constructions in German?
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What's the agent and patient in a causative clause
Normally, agent and patient always stay the same:
The bread (patient) is eaten.
Carol (agent) ate the bread (patient).
But what if you had a causative clause, something like:
Peter made Carol eat ...
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Causatives and Reflexives
Causatives have been analysed as a single clause with a split-VP.
If the binding of reflexives is only possible intra-clausally, why is there this contrast ingrammaticality?
[Mary]i let [John]j kill ...
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Clause analysis for causative verbs
I am doing clause analysis for a corpus and am not sure how to determine the clauses for the following type of sentence:
The kind of woman that makes people remember Marylin Monroe.
I suppose it ...
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Why does väcka/wecken seem to be built as a causative although vakna/wachen is a weak verb?
The causative verbs in germanic languages are built upon the preterite of a strong verb. However there's one verb that seems to fall out of that scheme:
Swedish: vakna - väcka; German: (auf)wachen - (...
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