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In this sentence, the subject is MARZUQ, and the object MARZUQAH. The causative verb “ask” causes MARZUQAH to do the action of the operative verb – sleeping alone. COMMON CAUSATIVE VERBS ...

If an unaccusative verb is reformed into a causative verb, the agent is assigned to the external argument: Note that the sun is an instrument here, since the sun, as far as I know, has no central ...

A CAUSATIVE VERB is an action verb that causes another action to happen. It is sometimes employed in an attempt to avoid an undesirable responsibility. Examples are MAKE [The President made the ...

WHAT could be a most baffling aspect of English to its first-time learners is its use of the so-called causatives. English deploys this strange grammatical structure to denote situations where a ...

Causative verb. The English language has, in fact, evolved a special verb form to make people avoid acknowledging responsibility—if only for the moment—when caught in such situations. That verb form ...

There are at least five kinds of causative constructions in Chinese, the constructions of the collocation of verbs and prepositional phrases, verb-copying constructions, "ba" constructions with an ...

Barbara Meisterernst, Negation and the Causative Verb shi 使 in Han Period Chinese, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 69, No. 3 (2006), pp. 433-455 ...