Comparative Concept: indirect causation-event (sem)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
indirect causation-event (sem)
| Typ | meaning |
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| Alias(se) | indirect causation-event |
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a causative event in which one agent (the causer) gets the other agent (the causee) to do something but doesn't participate in the carrying out of the action. Example: I had the students fill out the questionnaire is an instance of indirect causation. (Section 9.2)