2009•Journal of Tianjin Foreign Studies UniversityRequires access
On Causation,Causativized Verb and Causative Construction
Qian Wang
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Abstract
This paper explores the properties of causation,causativized verb and causative construction.Causation,generally,is a semantic notion,but mere semantic investigation can never show the nature of causation and causative construction.As a realization of verb,causativized verb is base-generated without any syntactically derivational relationship with other verbs.Its nature is dependent on its syntactic position in a sentence.It links two complex events in its deep semantic structure.As a lexical process,causativization may be applied to such categories as noun,adjective and intransitive verb.Causativized verb is not equivalent to light verb v,but is characteristic of overt proto-verb or canonical verb.Various causative constructions may be reduced to periphrastic causative construction,and to affected Appl fundamentally.