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- noun Plural form of
causative .
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Examples
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What is more, even when this distinction has been drawn, the denotations of the gerundive phrases often remain ambiguous, especially when the verbs whose nominalizations appear in these phrases are causatives.
Action Wilson, George 2007
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If the fundamental causatives are not addressed, history will repeat itself like it almost did with the women's wing in recent history.
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Reflexes of serial causatives in New Guinea Oceanic languages
Far Outliers 2009
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Moreover, the two groups of innovative causatives are in complementary distribution in Papua New Guinea and both differ from the causative pattern commonly found in Oceanic languages elsewhere.
Far Outliers 2009
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Innovative causatives derived from causative serial constructions appear to have supplanted to varying degrees the inherited prefix
Far Outliers 2009
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If the fundamental causatives are not addressed, history will repeat itself like it almost did with the women's wing in recent history.
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If the fundamental causatives are not addressed, history will repeat itself like it almost did with the women's wing in recent history.
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If the fundamental causatives are not addressed, history will repeat itself like it almost did with the women's wing in recent history.
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If the fundamental causatives are not addressed, history will repeat itself like it almost did with the women's wing in recent history.
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Part 3 suggests reasons for preferring the serial causatives.
Far Outliers 2009
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