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Meaning of "causative" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CAUSATIVE

causative  [ˈkɔːzətɪv] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CAUSATIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Causative can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES CAUSATIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Causative

In linguistics, a causative is a valency-increasing operation 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. Prototypically, it brings in a new argument, A, into a transitive clause, with the original S becoming the O. All languages have ways to express causation, but differ in the means. Most, if not all languages have lexical causative forms. Some languages also 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. There also tends to be a link between how "compact" a causative device is and its semantic meaning. Note that the prototypical English causative is make, rather than cause. Linguistic terms traditionally are given names with a Romance root, which has led some to believe that cause is the more prototypical. While cause is a causative, it carries some lexical meaning and is less common than make.

Definition of causative in the English dictionary

The first definition of causative in the dictionary is relating to a form or class of verbs, such as persuade, that express causation. Other definition of causative is and foll by of producing an effect. Causative is also the causative form or class of verbs.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CAUSATIVE


accusative
əˈkjuːzətɪv
administrative
ədˈmɪnɪstrətɪv
alternative
ɔːlˈtɜːnətɪv
collaborative
kəˈlæbərətɪv
comparative
kəmˈpærətɪv
conservative
kənˈsɜːvətɪv
cooperative
kəʊˈɒpərətɪv
cumulative
ˈkjuːmjʊlətɪv
decorative
ˈdɛkərətɪv
derivative
dɪˈrɪvətɪv
informative
ɪnˈfɔːmətɪv
initiative
ɪˈnɪʃɪətɪv
legislative
ˈlɛdʒɪslətɪv
narrative
ˈnærətɪv
negative
ˈnɛɡətɪv
operative
ˈɒpərətɪv
qualitative
ˈkwɒlɪtətɪv
quantitative
ˈkwɒntɪtətɪv
relative
ˈrɛlətɪv
representative
ˌrɛprɪˈzɛntətɪv

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CAUSATIVE

causa
causability
causable
causal
causalgia
causalgic
causalities
causality
causally
causation
causational
causationism
causationist
causatively
causativeness
cause
cause list
causeless
causelessly
causelessness

WORDS THAT END LIKE CAUSATIVE

active
affirmative
authoritative
commemorative
creative
figurative
imaginative
imperative
in the negative
indicative
innovative
integrative
investigative
lucrative
native
normative
oxidative
provocative
sales representative
speculative
tentative

Synonyms and antonyms of causative in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «causative» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CAUSATIVE

Find out the translation of causative to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of causative from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «causative» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

致病
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

causal
570 millions of speakers

English

causative
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

प्रेरणा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المسبب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Возбудителем
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

causal
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ণিজন্ত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

causal
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Penyebab
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

kausativ
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

原因となる
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

원인
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Causative
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chỉ nguyên nhân
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

காரணமாயிருக்கக்கூடிய
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रयोजक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ettirgen
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

causativo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

sprawczym
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

збудником
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cauzal
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αιτιολογικός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

veroorsakende
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

orsakande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

utløsende
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of causative

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CAUSATIVE»

The term «causative» is quite widely used and occupies the 43.266 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CAUSATIVE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «causative» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «causative» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about causative

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CAUSATIVE»

Discover the use of causative in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to causative and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Emerging Infectious Diseases: A Guide to Diseases, Causative ...
This important volume provides broad coverage of a variety of emerging infectious diseases, of which most are directly important to health practitioners in the United States.
Lisa A. Beltz, 2011
2
Corpus, Cognition and Causative Constructions
This book demonstrates the value of corpus linguistics in identifying the syntactic, semantic, lexical and stylistic features that are distinctive for each of these constructions.
Gaëtanelle Gilquin, 2010
3
Fire Blight: The Disease and Its Causative Agent, Erwinia ...
This work also considers the pathogen, including its biochemistry, genetics and pathogenicity, and finally reviews control, including biological methods.
Joël L. Vanneste, 2000
4
Lexical Perspectives on Transitivity and Ergativity: ...
The work explores the experiential basis of the prototypical paradigmatic behaviour of verbs (e.g. the ergative predilection of the SUFFOCATE verbs).
Maarten Lemmens, 1998
5
Causative and Perception Verbs: A Comparative Study
Egalement, elle propose que la formation des constructions causatives dépend de la contrainte sémantique sur l'objet du verbe enchâssé.
Maria Teresa Guasti, 1993
6
Accurate Prediction of Causative Protein Kinase ...
Understanding the genetic basis of disease is important, not only, for understanding the molecular mechanisms driving a particular disease phenotype, but also for providing informative prognostic, and diagnostic markers, as well as allowing ...
Ali Torkamani, 2008
7
Causatives and Transitivity
This volume brings together 18 typological studies of causative and related constructions (transitivity, voice, other expressions of cause) by 19 scholars from North America, Western Europe, and Russia.
Bernard Comrie, Maria Polinsky, 1993
8
Linguistic Anthropology
Thus, English verbs referring to death typically distinguish between a causative and a non- causative meaning: kill (causative)19 vs. die (non-causative). On the other hand. "almost all English verbs expressing the material disruption of an ...
Alessandro Duranti, 1997
9
Grammatical Categories and the Lexicon
2.1 Analytic, morphological, and lexical causative* There are three basic ways in which such a causative situation may be expressed, relative to the non-causative situation, namely analytic (or syntactic), morphological (or synthetic), and ...
Timothy Shopen, 1985
10
English Causative Sentences: Active And Passive Causatives
This Book Has Following Chapters - What Are Causative Sentences Causative Sentences - Have Structure (1 A) ---- Active Causative Structure Structure (1 B) ---- Passive Causative Structure Structure (2 A) ---- Active Causative Structure ...
Manik Joshi, 2014

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CAUSATIVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term causative is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Too much orange juice may raise skin cancer risk – but citrus virtues …
“The work we're doing at the biologic level is trying to understand which particular types of these compounds are the causative agents in ... «BeverageDaily.com, Jul 15»
2
Dysbiosis of upper respiratory tract microbiota in elderly pneumonia …
Although the etiology of LRTIs in many cases remains unknown, the most important causative bacterial pathogen for LRTI and particularly ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
3
Curious case of the romantic fingers
Several causative theories have been propounded and numerous assessment methods continue to be designed adding to the already ... «Deccan Herald, Jul 15»
4
Bronchiectasis Identified as a Potential HTLV-associated Disease
The human T-lymphotropic virus type-1 (HTLV-1) is the causative agent of adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL), HTLV-1-associated ... «Lung Disease News, Jul 15»
5
Alien life cause of surface features on Comet 67P? Rosetta sparks …
Alien life -- microbes -- could be the causative factor behind various features of Comet 67P, or so it is being stated in a controversial position ... «Examiner.com, Jul 15»
6
National Weather Service: Flash Flooding 'Possible' in Northern …
... water level rise in a stream or creek above a predetermined flood level, beginning within six hours of the causative event (e.g., intense rainfall ... «Patch.com, Jul 15»
7
Smart phones assist parasite diagnosis
... bancrofti microfilariae(one of the causative agent of lymphatic filariasis) peaks at night and Onchocerca microfilariae (the causative agents of ... «BMC Blogs Network, Jul 15»
8
How to rule a gene galaxy: A lesson from developing neurons
... disorders and it will be important to determine whether deregulation of TTP or/and miR-9 plays a causative role in such pathological contexts. «Medical Xpress, Jul 15»
9
Spinal Cord Injury, Gut Microbiome, and White-Plague Coral …
... function, and the destruction of this community has a causative role in diseases including obesity, diabetes, and even neurological disorders. «PLoS Blogs, Jul 15»
10
Rare Case Report of CF Patient with Pulmonary Tuberculosis Offers …
Infection by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), the causative agent of most tuberculosis cases, is for unknown reasons rarely observed in CF ... «Cystic Fibrosis News Today, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Causative [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/causative>. Apr 2024 ».
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