Series | Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies
Volume | Materials and Methods of Analysis for the Study of the Ainu Language
Chapter | 11• Causatives
11• Causatives
Abstract
Causativization is a valency-increasing strategy which derives a transitive verb from a base intransitive or a ditransitive verb from a base transitive. With causativization, a new participant (the causer) is introduced in an event, who acts upon another participant (the causee) to make them perform the event described by the verb. The causer of a causative event is marked as the subject while languages differ in how they formally encode the causee, but most commonly it is expressed either as an oblique or as an indirect object.
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