If a language has a causative morpheme which expresses permissiveness, this morpheme usually combines with a larger group of verbal stems in this meaning than in its second meaning, factitivity, which is implied by the first.
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If a language has a causative morpheme which expresses permissiveness, this morpheme usually combines with a larger group of verbal stems in this meaning than in its second meaning, factitivity, which is implied by the first.
1. This is due to the fact that there is a range of actions which can be permitted (in reality or in the imagination, i.e., because one has not known about them or failed to notice them, because one has not known about them or failed to notice them, because one has waited for them to begin, etc.), but which cannot be directly caused, e.g., Nivkh (isolate) kru-gu-d’ ‘wait for the dawn, until it dawns’, from kru-d’ ‘to dawn’. (Nedjalkov & Sil’nickij 1973: 12)2. Cf. #289.
1. This is due to the fact that there is a range of actions which can be permitted (in reality or in the imagination, i.e., because one has not known about them or failed to notice them, because one has not known about them or failed to notice them, because one has waited for them to begin, etc.), but which cannot be directly caused, e.g., Nivkh (isolate) kru-gu-d’ ‘wait for the dawn, until it dawns’, from kru-d’ ‘to dawn’. (Nedjalkov & Sil’nickij 1973: 12)2. Cf. #289.