Causative

Causative forms are being unable to bear someone telling us what to do or even asking us to do something, because we feel it threatens our independence.

Developing Balanced Sensitivity: Practical Buddhist Exercises for Daily Life (Revised Second Edition) ��� 17 Grasping at Mind's Natural Functions for Security 2009

Causative, all from first principles – it makes for wonderful models.

New Scientist, Juckes and Rob Wilson « Climate Audit 2007

Treatment (dispensary) - Causative: cause of fever following the established diagnosis of the disease.

Chapter 6 1993

Causative verbs from verbal roots indicate that the action expressed in the root is made to take place: dormigi, to put to sleep (from dormi, to sleep). konigi, to make acquainted with (from koni, to know). mirigi, to astonish (from miri, to wonder). mortigi, to kill (from morti, to die).

A Complete Grammar of Esperanto Ivy Kellerman Reed 1922

Causative duplications are characteristic of Hottentot, e.g., gam-gam24 “to cause to tell” (from gam “to tell”).

Chapter 4. Form in Language: Grammatical Processes 1921

Causative Use of the Verb.a. The causative use of the verb which is found in the LXX may be set down with confidence as a Hebraism.

A Grammar of Septuagint Greek 1856-1924 1905

Causative forms, remind us of the oriental structure, one peculiarity (that of the chief's dialect, or almost language, running parallel to that of common life) I think I have before mentioned.

Life of John Coleridge Patteson Yonge, Charlotte M 1873

Causative form of _yauh_, "to cause to go," to put to flight.

Rig Veda Americanus Sacred Songs of the Ancient Mexicans, With a Gloss in Nahuatl Various 1868

Causative verbs show that some person or thing helps to make something happen. subjunctive.

Composition 2010

Causative factors, according to 26 UN agencies contributing to the report, include climate change, population increase and human migration.

People's Weekly World Blog 2009