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  • A '''causative verb''' is a [[verb]] with an [[argument]] that expresses the cause of the In (i)-(iii) ''let'', ''make'', and ''cause'' are causative verbs; ''John'' refers to the cause of ''Bill's eating grass''.
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  • ....g. ''-ia'' or ''-lia'') nearly always have a few usages in which they are causative. ...death (in the typical case) causes someone to cry: this is clearly like a causative. However, the person who causes the crying (the new nominal argument) is no
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  • ...alysis of [[preposition stranding]] and [[clause union]] phenomena. In the case of a [[pseudo-passive]] like (i)a the [[stranded preposition]] at and the [ ...but it may also demote an external theta-role to become an internal one in causative constructions, see (iii), while creating a complex predicate. Both examples
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  • ...ate]] in the [[infinitive]], in sentences including [[cognition verb]]s, [[causative verb]]s and [[verb of saying|verbs of saying]].
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  • *H. Borer, The Causative-Inchoative Alternation: A Case Study in Parallel Morphology. LRev 1991/8, 119–158.
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  • *Harley, H. 1996. Sase bizarre: the Japanese Causative and Structural Case. In: P. Koskinen (Hrsg.), ''Proceedings of the 1995 Canadian Linguistics So
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  • ...rabic language|Arabic]] and Russian, mainly through loanwords and — in the case of Russian — even syntactically and stylistically. ...), depending on the structure of the stem. An example is the [[superessive case|superessive]] suffix ''-ƛʼ(o)'', which attached to the word ''besuro'' (f
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  • ...ection. There is no overt marking (and no category) of gender, number, and case. (Natural) gender and number (plurality) can be expressed by lexical means ; Causative/factitive
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  • 1965a. Causative froms in Japanese. Foundations of Language 1. 30-50. 1978. Case-marking, cannonical sentence patterns and counter equi in Japanese. In J. H
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  • *1976h. Remarks on what can cause what. In Shibatani (ed.), The grammar of causative constructions (Syntax and Semantics 6, New York: Academic Press), 117-29. R *1987d. A case of syntactic mimicry. R. Dirven and V. Frid (eds.), Functionalism. Amsterda
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