{"pk":35149,"title":"Causatives in Maring","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Causatives are valence increasing operation where another core argument, a causal agent (causer), is added for expressing a semantic or logical effect of causation on the non-causative verb. Causative construction comprises of the causer –the agent of the predicate of cause, and the causee – the agent of the caused event (Payne 1997: 176). This paper described the formation of causatives in Maring, a lesser-known Tibeto-Burman language spoken in southeaster part of Manipur, India. Maring has three causatives, \ntəu-, -kjər \nand \npi-\n. While \ntəu- \nis used for direct causation and for deriving causatives from adjectives, \nkjər- \nis used for indirect causation. On the other hand, p\ni- \nis a benefactive marker that also gives causative interpretation. This paper will discuss and analyse the three causatives found in Maring – their origin, characteristics and productivity etc","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"Causatives, Maring, Kuki-Naga, Tibeto-Burman"}],"section":"Languages and Peoples of the Eastern Himalayan Region","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3d7919cw","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Susie","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kanshouwa","name_suffix":"","institution":"Jawaharlal Nehru University","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2021-06-23T05:39:54-07:00","date_accepted":"2021-06-23T05:39:54-07:00","date_published":"2022-05-02T01:56:49-07:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/himalayanlinguistics/article/35149/galley/26173/download/"}]}