Suzanne<div><br></div><div>A couple of examples of the sort you want (I think):</div><div><br></div><div>Jacaltec (Craig's Structure of Jacaltec 1977: 376)</div><div>(1) Tz'ayic x-'a'a-ni tajoj xil kape.</div>
<div> sun ASP-give-SUF to dry clothes</div><div> "The sun made the clothes dry."</div><div><br></div><div>Orizaba Nahuatl (Tuggy, in van Belle and van Langendonck's <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:'Trebuchet MS',verdana,'arial unicode ms',helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:22px">The Dative,</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:'Trebuchet MS',verdana,'arial unicode ms',helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1em">Volume 1: Descriptive studies</span>1996)</div>
<div>The -tia suffix covers the meanings of "give,causative""</div><div>(2a) ama-tia = paper-give = "give documents to X"</div><div>(2b) mik-tia = die-give = "kill"</div><div>(2c) patio-tia = expensive -give = "raise the price of"</div>
<div><br></div><div>John</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Suzanne Kemmer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kemmer@rice.edu">kemmer@rice.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi all,<br>
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I have been queried about something I wrote a long time ago, and I did not<br>
document the facts well enough to easily find more examples of a particular kind.<br>
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Does anyone know of any languages in which the causative verb in an analytic causative construction<br>
is a verb literally meaning 'give'? The example I came across in fieldwork and mentioned in my<br>
paper with Arie Verhagen is: Luo MIYO 'give' which is used as an analytic causative verb.<br>
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The easiest way to sum up the analytic causative construction I am talking about<br>
is: [ Causer V(of causation) Causee V (Patient) ] .<br>
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Examples include English 'I made her laugh' and the French FAIRE causative.<br>
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Case marking/grammatical relations of the participants can vary across languages; word order can vary. The second verb - the<br>
one with the variable lexical content, which expresses a predicate of result in this construction -- may or may not be finite, and if non-finite may or may not have an infinitive marker.<br>
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The range of meanings of the construction should include 'X made Y do something'/ 'X caused Y to do something'.<br>
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The reason:<br>
I am aware that some languages do not sharply distinguish 'strict causation' from<br>
other force dynamic configurations like allowing or ordering; such meanings are often found with such constructions as well as 'strict causation'.<br>
'Strict causation', which I have often been told is the only interpretation of such constructions that is typologically relevant, means causation<br>
as logicians define it: The caused predicate follows the causing predicate (or its associated specific action) in time; and, supposedly, it would not have taken place had not X done something unspecified that is expressed schematically by the causing predicate.<br>
Since many linguists are most interested in this 'logical' causation, I wanted to make sure examples of the construction include the meaning 'make Y do'. Not just 'let Y do', 'order Y to do' , etc.<br>
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Thanks for any help!<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Suzanne Kemmer<br>
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