Lemma | causative construction |
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Categoria grammaticale | N |
Lingua | inglese |
Sigla | Dixon (2004) |
Titolo | A TYPOLOGY OF CAUSATIVES. Form, syntax and meaning |
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Citazioni | A causative construction is sometimes described as involving "two events". [...] I prefer a quite different characterization - a causative construction involves the specification of an additional argument, a causer, onto a basic clause. All causative constructions have in common the addition of an A argument (the causer) to an underlying clause and this provides the basic semantic/syntactic criterion for recognizing a causative construction in a given language. |