causative verb

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causative
adjective
uk
/ˈkɔː.zə.tɪv/us
/ˈkɑː.zə.t̬ɪv/
acting as the cause ...
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verb
noun[C]
uk
/vɜːb/us
/vɝːb/
a word or phrase that describes an action, condition, ...
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(Definition ofcausativeandverbfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcausative verb

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Yet, the same verb run is not derived from acausativeverbwhen it occurs without the directional phrase.
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As discussed earlier, in addition to being acausativeverband a morphological causative marker, hoo has other functions.
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These errors show that the child did not master the use of thecausativeverbyet.
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An intransitive verb can be turned into a transitive one by making the former into acausativeverb.
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The aorist system stem actually has three different formations: the simple aorist, the reduplicating aorist (semantically related to thecausativeverb), and the sibilant aorist.
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However, the possible links between the acquisition of locative and causative verbs have not been systematically investigated.
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Learning the structure of causative verbs : a study in the relationship of cognitive, semantic and syntactic development.
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Evaluating competing linguistic models with language acquisition data : implications of developmental errors with causative verbs.
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One of the issues is about the nature of the children's errors involving the overgeneralized use of intransitive verbs as causative verbs.
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Juffs proposes that this is the lexical parameter that determines the syntactic behaviour of both locative and causative verbs, despite their surface differences.
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Unergative intransitive verbs, transitive verbs, and causative verbs (with a lexical causative morpheme) were categorized as constructions with an external argument.
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A significant subclass of class 1 weak verbs were causative verbs.
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Bemba indicates causative verbs through alternation of the stem-final consonant.
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What is rather general with no exception is the accusative marker (r) which accompanies the definite direct object of both transitive and causative verbs.
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All in all, the formation of the causative verbs are not comprehensively productive, but it has been applied to certain verbs only.
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