What does causative mean?

Definitions for causative
ˈkɔ zə tɪvcausative

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. causativeadjective

    producing an effect

    "poverty as a causative factor in crime"

Wiktionary

  1. causativenoun

    An expression of an agent causing or forcing a patient to perform an action (or to be in a certain condition).

  2. causativeadjective

    Acting as a cause.

  3. Etymology: From causativus, from causa; see cause.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Causativeadjective

    a term in grammar. That expresses a cause or reason.

Wikipedia

  1. Causative

    In linguistics, a causative (abbreviated CAUS) is a valency-increasing operation that indicates that a subject either causes someone or something else to do or be something or causes a change in state of a non-volitional event. Normally, it brings in a new argument (the causer), A, into a transitive clause, with the original subject S becoming the object O. All languages have ways to express causation but differ in the means. Most, if not all, languages have specific or lexical causative forms (such as English rise → raise, lie → lay, sit → set). Some languages also have morphological devices (such as inflection) that change verbs into their causative forms or change adjectives into verbs of becoming. Other languages employ periphrasis, with control verbs, idiomatic expressions or auxiliary verbs. There tends to be a link between how "compact" a causative device is and its semantic meaning.The normal English causative verb or control verb used in periphrasis is make rather than cause. Linguistic terms are traditionally given names with a Romance root, which has led some to believe that cause is more prototypical. While cause is a causative, it carries some additional meaning (it implies direct causation) and is less common than make. Also, while most other English causative verbs require a to complement clause (as in “My mom caused me to eat broccoli"), make does not require one ("My mom made me eat broccoli"), at least when it is not being used in the passive voice.: 36–7 

ChatGPT

  1. causative

    In general, causative refers to the relationship between an event or action and its cause. It indicates that one event or action causes another. In grammar, causative is a form or structure that indicates one person or thing causes another person or thing to perform an action.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Causativeadjective

    effective, as a cause or agent; causing

  2. Causativeadjective

    expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case

  3. Causativenoun

    a word which expresses or suggests a cause

  4. Etymology: [L. causativus pertaining to a lawsuit (causa), but in the English sense from E. cause.]

Wikidata

  1. Causative

    In linguistics, a causative is a form that indicates that a subject causes someone or something else to do or be something, or causes a change in state of a non-volitional event. All languages have ways to express causation, but differ in the means. Some languages have morphological devices that change verbs into their causative forms, or adjectives into verbs of becoming. Other languages employ periphrasis, with idiomatic expressions or auxiliary verbs. All languages also have lexical causative forms.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of causative in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of causative in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of causative in a Sentence

  1. Collette Carroll:

    We spend an entire year alone on emotions so (they) learn the causative factors of what got them where they got in the first place.

  2. Frank McKenzie:

    I just didn't find that there was a causative link there. It worried me, and we take extreme force protection measures all the time in Afghanistan, you see a lot of indicators. Many of them are troubling ; many of them you act on. But in this case, there just wasn't enough there. I sent the intelligence guys back to continue to dig on it. And I believe they're continuing to dig right now.

  3. Gurjit Khurana Hershey:

    Because of this mouse data, we found [the VNN-1 pathway] is not just a marker but has a causative role.

  4. Amelia Lake:

    While this study doesn't offer a definitive causative answer about sugar and cancer, it does add to the overall picture of the importance of the current drive to reduce our sugar intake, clearly there is more work to be done and measuring dietary intake is challenging, however, the message from the totality of evidence on excess sugar consumption and various health outcomes is clear -- reducing the amount of sugar in our diet is extremely important.

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  • Ben Balogun-Olawuyi
    Ben Balogun-Olawuyi
    Causative is an agent of change; it enables a process or an action to take place.
    LikeReply6 years ago

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