Definition of Causatives. Meaning of Causatives. Synonyms of Causatives

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Definition of Causatives

Causative
Causative Caus"a*tive, a. [L. causativus pertaining to a lawsuit (causa), but in the English sense from E. cause.] 1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. Causative in nature of a number of effects. --Bacon. 2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case.
Causative
Causative Caus"a*tive (k[add]"z[.a]*t[i^]v), n. A word which expresses or suggests a cause.

Meaning of Causatives from wikipedia

- "compactness.": 74–5  Lexical causatives are common in the world's languages. There are three kinds of lexical causatives, the unifying factor being that...
- Kinyarwanda employs the use of periphrastic causatives, in addition to morphological causatives. The periphrastic causatives use the verbs -teer- and -tum-, which...
- In linguistic morphology, causative mood serves to express a causal relation, e.g., a logical inference relation, between the current clause and the clause...
- valency-changing operations (such as p****ive voice, antip****ive voice, applicatives, causatives, etc.). Generally speaking, there are two types of ambitransitive verbs...
- In biology, a pathogen (Gr****: πάθος, pathos "suffering", "p****ion" and -γενής, -genēs "producer of"), in the oldest and broadest sense, is any organism...
- Haspelmath, Martin (1993). "More on the typology of inchoative/causative verb alternations". Causatives and transitivity, edited by Bernard Comrie & Maria Polinsky...
- This is a list of infectious diseases arranged by name, along with the infectious agents that cause them, the vaccines that can prevent or cure them when...
- Anaplasma phagocytophilum, the causative agent of human granulocytic anaplasmosis, and Ehrlichia chaffeensis, the causative agent of human monocytic ehrlichiosis...
- 1975. Causatives and universal grammar. Transactions of the Philological Society 1974. 1–32. Comrie, Bernard. 1976. The syntax of causative constructions:...
- do not indicate case of noun phrases verb affixes mark number p****ives causatives comparatives Kamigin at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)...