[Lingtyp] A generalization about morphological and syntactic causatives

[Guillaume Jacques]

Dear Juergen,

Japhug (langsci-press.org/catalog/book/295) is a counterexample, it
has a very productive causative prefix sɯ-/z- (phonologically
conditioned allomorphs) which can be applied to loanwords from Tibetan
and even from Chinese, and occurs on transitive verbs
(https://paperhive.org/documents/items/Q7EaSdGqQ2jb?a=p:863), but at
the same time there are periphrastic causative constructions, for
instance with the verb βzu "make"
(https://paperhive.org/documents/items/Q7EaSdGqQ2jb?a=p:1378).

Guillaume

Le mer. 7 juin 2023 à 20:57, Juergen Bohnemeyer <jb77 at buffalo.edu> a écrit :
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> Dear all – It seems that languages with fully productive morphological causatives tend to lack syntactic (a.k.a. periphrastic/analytical) causatives. By ‘fully productive’, I mean crucially that the causative marker can be applied to already transitive (and thus semantically causative) bases, and therefore can be used to express indirect causation. Examples of languages that have fully productive morphological causatives in this sense and lack periphrastic causative constructions include Chuvash, Japanese, Hindi/Urdu, and Shawi (Cahuapanan, Peru).
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> Two questions about the above generalization:
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> (i)                  Are there counterexamples?
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> (ii)                Are there statements of this generalization in the literature?
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> Thanks! – Juergen
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Guillaume Jacques

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CNRS (CRLAO) - EPHE- INALCO
https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=1XCp2-oAAAAJ&hl=fr
https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/295
http://panchr.hypotheses.org/