Talk:Causative

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Contents 1 Rewriting 2 Becoming 3 Factitive 4 Merge proposal

[edit] Rewriting

I've just rewritten the article almost completely. Besides being in the "Systemic Bias" list, it didn't cover much of causation really. Too many Sanskrit examples (which are fine but belong in Sanskrit) and some Klingon (ditto, plus irrelevant, and inadequate — Klingon is a constructed language especially designed to be unnatural for humans).

Examples are needed still. I have only English and Spanish as European languages; more variety would be nice. For the stative adjectives and some regular causative inflection, sbdy more knowledgeable of Japanese than I am should explain the causative.

--Pablo D. Flores 15:29, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Becoming

"In some languages there are morphological devices (such as inflection) that change verbs into their causative forms, or adjectives into verbs of "becoming"." -- The part about "verbs of 'becoming'" doesn't seem quite right to me; the idea isn't so much "becoming ___" as "making (something) become ___", right? But I'm not sure how to word it so that it sounds right. 24.159.255.29 00:39, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Factitive

I see that Wikipedia has no factitive page. What is the difference between the causative of an adjective/stative verb and a factitive? 24.159.255.29 00:50, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge proposal

Causative voice should be merged to Causative. - TAKASUGI Shinji (talk) 08:12, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

I have merged Causative voice to Causative. - TAKASUGI Shinji (talk) 01:45, 24 April 2008 (UTC)