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Tara2 Posted 7 years ago
Grammar

Cause-causees

Can you please explain "cause-causees"?What do they mean by that?

"where the causee is animate, make-causatives also seem to be paraphrased well by force. The causee doesn’t seem to have a choice about their actions, while the cause-causees still seem to: (29) a. John made the children dance. b. John forced the children to dance."

https://web.stanford.edu/~pnadath/handouts/ling130b-fall17/Nadathur-analytic-causatives.pdf

  

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The original text has " make- causees" and " cause -causees" (note italics). It seems to be referring respectively to the causees in sentences that use the word make and the causees in sentences that use the word cause .

  • The original text has " make- causees" and " cause -causees" (note italics).
  • It seems to be referring respectively to the causees in sentences that use the word make and the causees in sentences that use the word cause .
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The original text has "make-causees" and "cause-causees" (note italics). It seems to be referring respectively to the causees in sentences that use the word make and the causees in sentences that use the word cause.

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where the causee is animate, make-causatives also seem to be paraphrased well by force.
The causee doesn’t seem to have a choice about their actions, while the cause-causees still seem

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