Quiz de causativos en lingüística

<p>Inflecciones que cambian los verbos en sus formas causativas</p> Signup and view all the answers

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<p>Causative = A valency-increasing operation that indicates that a subject either causes someone or something else to do or be something or causes a change in state of a non-volitional event Periphrasis = A linguistic device that employs control verbs, idiomatic expressions or auxiliary verbs to express causation Specific or lexical causative forms = Forms in a language that change verbs into their causative forms or change adjectives into verbs of becoming Compactness of a causative device = There tends to be a link between this and its semantic meaning</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Causer = The new argument introduced in a transitive clause in a causative construction Subject = The role that the causer takes in a transitive clause in a causative construction Object = The role that the original subject takes in a transitive clause in a causative construction Transitive clause = The type of clause that a new argument (the causer) is introduced into in a causative construction</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Rise = Raise Lie = Lay Sit = Set Become = Cause to be</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Morphological devices = Inflection that changes verbs into their causative forms or change adjectives into verbs of becoming Periphrasis = Using control verbs or auxiliary verbs to express causation Specific or lexical causative forms = English verb pairs like rise → raise, lie → lay, sit → set Compact causative device = A device that is closely related to its semantic meaning</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>All languages have ways to express causation = True Most, if not all, languages have specific or lexical causative forms = True Some languages also have morphological devices that change verbs into their causative forms = True The normal English causative verb or control verb used in periphrasis is cause = False</p> Signup and view all the answers