In this report you will be examining the way in which your language handles regular changes in valency. However, the correlation is not always so straightforward. It is in the context of such regular patterns of valency-changing that the causative construction is to be examined. He makes the sun rise. One common pattern of valency change is typically termed the causative.
Different linguists have different conceptions of what the causative is.
The marking of the causee is an important part of the cross-linguistic study of causatives. Back to 518 Indexpage .