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Causative

In linguistics, a causative (abbreviated .

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Causative

Nodes154
Edges153
Triples248
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.012987
Components1

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related to General reading · 45
Causative → Aikhenvald, Alexandra, American Indigenous Languages, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Case Studies, Causative Events, Cognitive Semantics Volume, Concept Structuring Systems, Croft, Dec, Dixon, Evidenced, Goertz, Harlow, Huang, Iconicity, In Changing Valency, In Santa Barbara Papers, Introduction
related to Comrie · 13
Causative → Bernard Comrie, Comrie, Comrie's, Croft, Crucially, English, Finally, Formally, Keenan, NP, The, These, While
related to Dixon's prototypes · 11
Causative → CP, Dixon, In, Involvement, Kamayurá, M1, M2, Nomatsiguenga, Parameter, These, When
related to Athabaskan languages · 10
Causative → Alaska, Athabaskan, For, Hupa, In, Koyukon, Northern Athabaskan, Perhaps, Rice, When
related to Intransitives · 10
Causative → All, Arabic, Blackfoot, For, Gothic, Hungarian, In, Japanese, Since, Some
related to Causal case · 7
Causative → Indo-European, It, Native South American, Northeast Caucasian Archi, Quechua, The, Tocharian
related to Semitic languages · 7
Causative → Arabic, Hebrew, In, It, Proto-Semitic, Semitic, Syriac
related to Causative voice · 6
Causative → If, Japanese, Mongolian, The, Turkish, When
related to Double causatives · 6
Causative → Dad, Hindustani, Many Indo-Aryan, Mom, Periphrastic, Some
related to Semantics · 6
Causative → Can, Dixon, Does, For, State/Action, Transitivity

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verb verbs causatives languages transitive causation english intransitive make lexical two one morphological object causee cause subject example language also

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
walkinstance ofinclude verbs0.80text
knit because the S of the intransitive corresponds to the A of the transitiveinstance ofinclude verbs0.80text
swiminstance ofit is unlikely whether any language has a lexical causative for verbs0.80text
singinstance ofit is unlikely whether any language has a lexical causative for verbs0.80text
readinstance ofit is unlikely whether any language has a lexical causative for verbs0.80text
or kick.Irregular stem changeEnglish fellinstance ofit is unlikely whether any language has a lexical causative for verbs0.80text
riseinstance ofTwo wordsEnglish has verb pairs0.80text
raiseinstance ofTwo wordsEnglish has verb pairs0.80text
eatinstance ofTwo wordsEnglish has verb pairs0.80text
feedinstance ofTwo wordsEnglish has verb pairs0.80text
seeinstance ofTwo wordsEnglish has verb pairs0.80text
show where one is essentially the causative correspondent of the other.These pairs are linked semantically by various meansinstance ofTwo wordsEnglish has verb pairs0.80text

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