Causative
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title:
Causative
text:
In linguistics, a causative is a valency-increasing operation 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-volitional event. Normally, it brings in a new argument, A, into a transitive clause, with the original subject S becoming the object O. All languages have ways to express causation but differ in the means. Most, if not all, languages have specific or lexical causative forms. Some languages also have morphol
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encyclopedia
description:
Aspect of verb grammar
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causative
date created:
2004-04-26T00:42:19Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T09:52:05Z
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