Causative

A causative form, in linguistics, is an expression of an agent causing or forcing a patient to perform an action (or to be in a certain state).

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All languages have ways to express causation, but they differ in the means. In some languages there are morphological devices (such as inflection) that change verbs into their causative forms, or adjectives into verbs of "becoming". Other languages employ periphrasis, with idiomatic expressions or auxiliary verbs. All languages also have lexical causative forms (such as English rise → raise).

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Morphological: REDIRECT morphology...

Inflection: :This article is about inflection in linguistics. For a mathematical meaning, see Inflection point....

Periphrasis: Periphrasis is a figure of speech where the meaning of a word or phrase is expressed by many or several words. Also known as circumlocution. (Periphrasis is of Greek origin , while circumlocution is Latin – both meaning "phrasing around", as in "avoiding the straightforward way of saying it".)...