Causatives in Nasracorian
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This public article was written by [Deactivated User] on 24 Feb 2015, 20:05.
[comments] nqr Nasracorian (autonym Nasraqqor) has a slightly unusual method of expressing causative valency operations. Frequently, causative valency operations are expressed by promoting an oblique agent argument to the nominative, and adding another oblique patient argument if there is one. However, in Nasraqqor, the oblique agent is not promoted at all, and instead the oblique patient is assigned a distinct case, represented by the suffix -oor, which I gloss as CAUS. If there is no oblique patient (because the verb is intransitive), this suffix is attached to the oblique agent, with a null patient.
Here are simple sentences, without a causative construction:
ceuure naqor
1.NOM-drink water.ACC
I drink water.
ceuure
1.NOM-drink
I drink.
And the structures with a causative:
ceuure ssuum naqoroor
1.NOM-drink 3.ACC water-CAUS
I cause him/her/it to drink water.
ceuure ssuumoor
1.NOM-drink 3-Ø-CAUS
I cause him/her/it to drink.
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