Difference between revisions of "Causative form"

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A causative form, in linguistics, (a) is an expression of an agent causing or forcing a patient to perform an action or to be in a certain condition--salient cause, (b) is an expression of a patient involves in a non-volitional event that registers the changes of its state--salient effect, (c) is an expression of a grammatical modality in perfective (sequential) or subjenctive (hypothetical) or realis (non-hypothetical) state--perceptual salient. In Korean, his form is called 사동.

Forming causatives

Explaining the form with subject marker, object marker, etc.

Creating causative form

Causative form can also created: See V + 게 하다

See also

• Passive form
• V + 게 하다