[Lingtyp] Agentive vs. unagentive causees?

[Marianne Mithun]

Hi Seppo,

Central Alaskan Yup'ik has a nice array of different causative suffixes
distinguishing the kinds of things you mention. You can see them starting
on page 98 of the attached.

Best,
Marianne

Mithun, Marianne. 2000. Valency-changing derivations in Central Alaskan
Yup’ik. *Changing Valency*. R.M.W. Dixon and Alexandra Akihenvald, eds.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 84-114.

On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 7:52 AM Kittilä, Seppo via Lingtyp <
lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Does anyone here happen to know whether there are languages that would
> code what I have labelled here as agentive and unagentive causees
> differently. I refer here to cases like 'John made me build a house'
> (agentive causee) and 'great, now you made me break this' (unagentive
> causee). In both cases, the causee is responsible for what happens, but
> there are clear differences in whether the causee acts volitionally,
> purposefully and is in control. There are many languages where the
> agentivity/volitionality of the causer is formally manifest in cases like
> 'I broke something on purpose/accidentally' (for example the case marking
> of the Causer varies accordingly, see, e.g., Fauconnier 2012), but are
> there similar cases for Causees. And I am not looking for cases where the
> degree of volitionality of the Causee is different as in 'I made/let him do
> something', but cases where the coding of a Causee that accidentally causes
> something to happen is different from a Causee whose action is volitional
> and controlled.
>
> All the best,
> Seppo
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