The historical development of the causative use of the verb<i>make</i>with an infinitive<sup>1</sup>

Terasawa, Jun

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“…Unfortunately her works were merely devoted to a limited number of verbs, analyzed in the context of linguistic change. Other researchers, e.g., Royster (1922), Ellegård (1953), Takahashi (1984), Terasawa (1985) and Fischer (1992), (1995), (1996) and (1997), Lauer (2010), Lowrey (2012) as well as Moretti (2022) concentrated either on selected causative verbs or were concerned about specific, fragmentary discussion of the verbs in question. In turn, Gołąbek and Stachurska (2020) published a short outline of the history of English periphrastic causative verbs as a part of their monograph on sociolinguistic variation.…”

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Subjectless infinitive complements of periphrastic causative verbs in Middle English and possible reasons for the loss of the construction

Gołąbek,

Stachurska

2022

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The article presents selected facts concerning two kinds of analysis of Subjectless Infinitive Complements (ØI) of Causative Verbs in Middle English. One of them is the Indefinite Object Deletion Analysis (hence IOD), which can be considered natural in terms of the Object Deletion principles. The other one is the Verb Raising Analysis (hence VR) which provides some interesting facts about the history of English causatives. Among others, the article addresses the auxiliary-like behaviour of causative verbs in Middle English and says that the very loss of ØI can be accounted for reasonably by postulating that the existence of ØI and passive aci constructions are mutually exclusive. In addition, one should also remember about the double application of IOD and VR, which yielded unclear and semantically complicated structures, as possible factors in the loss of ØI constructions in English.

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Subjectless infinitive complements of periphrastic causative verbs in Middle English and possible reasons for the loss of the construction

Gołąbek,

Stachurska

2022

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Constructions synonymiques dans Les mots comme marqueurs de l’idiostyle de J.-P. Sartre

Lepetiukha

2021

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Finite causative complements in Middle English

Lowrey

2018

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This paper examines the use of causative verbs with two kinds of finite complements in Middle English (ME): a simple finite clause (V+that) and one involving both a finite clause and a separate NP (V+NP+that). I attempt to determine in which contexts these structures appear, and to what extent they are related. I suggest that V+that is probably a survivor from Old English and V+NP+that a later innovation. I also examine the factors likely to have contributed to the persistence of V+that in ME, and to the emergence of V+NP+that, such as language contact and the influence of other existing Middle English constructions which may have played a role in the spread of V+NP+that.

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The historical development of the causative use of the verbmakewith an infinitive¹

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Subjectless infinitive complements of periphrastic causative verbs in Middle English and possible reasons for the loss of the construction

Subjectless infinitive complements of periphrastic causative verbs in Middle English and possible reasons for the loss of the construction

Constructions synonymiques dans Les mots comme marqueurs de l’idiostyle de J.-P. Sartre

Finite causative complements in Middle English

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The historical development of the causative use of the verbmakewith an infinitive1

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Subjectless infinitive complements of periphrastic causative verbs in Middle English and possible reasons for the loss of the construction

Subjectless infinitive complements of periphrastic causative verbs in Middle English and possible reasons for the loss of the construction

Constructions synonymiques dans Les mots comme marqueurs de l’idiostyle de J.-P. Sartre

Finite causative complements in Middle English

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