CALL > causative

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Dear colleagues,

The grammaticalisation of a verb meaning 'to call' (or 
even 'to cry/shout') into a marker of (broadly defined) 
causativity (i.e. you CALL him go with you > you make him 
go with you) is fairly common in Sinitic. I was wondering 
whether other examples of such pathway may be found in 
other language families (I found a possible case in a 
creole language influenced by Cantonese, so that doesn't 
count...).

Best,

Giorgio F. Arcodia

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