What is causative case?

Causative case is a case which expresses that the referent of the noun it marks is the cause of the situation expressed by the clause.

• What is case?

Pei and Gaynor 1954 36

Andrews, A. 1985 95

Gove 1966 356

Context for this page:

• Concept module: causative case
• In overview module: Glossary (Linguistics): C
• In modular book: Glossary of linguistic terms, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H., Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
• In bookshelf: Linguistics

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