Universal #1586

Legacy number: 1586

 Number  1582
 Original  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.
 Standardized  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.
 Keywords  causative, permissiveness, factitivity
 Domain  morphology, semantics
 Type  no genuine implication; rather: provided that
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  languages mentioned in Nedjalkov & Sil'nickij 1969, Nedjalkov & Sil'nickij 1973
 Source  Nedjalkov & Sil'nickij 1969: 30, Nedjalkov & Sil'nickij 1973: 12

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Discussion
Notes
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.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
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. <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=289"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">