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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>A '''causative verb''' is a [[verb]] with an [[argument]] that expresses the cause of the action described by the verb. <br />
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===Examples===<br />
In (i)-(iii) ''let'', ''make'', and ''cause'' are causative verbs; ''John'' refers to the cause of ''Bill's eating grass''.<br />
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(i) John let Bill eat grass<br />
(ii) John made Bill eat grass<br />
(iii) John caused Bill to eat grass<br />
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===Comments===<br />
A certain class of verbs alternate between a causative reading and an [[inchoative]] reading. Examples are ''break'', ''drown'' and De-adjectival verbs formed with the [[suffix]] ''-en'' in (iv) - (vii).<br />
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INCHOATIVE CAUSATIVE<br />
(iv) The vase broke John broke the vase<br />
(v) The lady drowned Our tenant drowned a lady<br />
(vi) The canal widened They widened the canal<br />
(vii) The tomatoes reddened The sun reddened the tomatoes<br />
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===Link===<br />
[http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Causative+verb&lemmacode=859 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics] <br />
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===References===<br />
*Borer, H. 1990. ''Derived nominals and the causative-inchoative alternation: two case studies in parallel morphology''. Ms. UC Irvine.<br />
*Grimshaw, J. 1990. ''Argument Structure.'' Cambridge, Mass: MIT-press.<br />
*Jackendoff, R. 1990. ''Semantic Structures.'' Cambridge: MIT-Press.<br />
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