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Do Active/Stative languages have Causatives?
Previous linguistic researchers, including me, have called the mamuk- (in the Southern Dialect munk-) formation of verbs a “Causative”, which isn’t totally wrong. However… Image credit: Spotify Additional years of work with Chinuk Wawa (Chinook Jargon) have surprisingly shown that this is an Active/Stative language. So the Jargon is not Nominative/Accusative like English, or Ergative/Absolutive like another Indo-European language, Hindi-Urdu. F…
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