Being Causative/non-Causative is a kind of contrast in verbs that is reflected in the syntactic structures and changes their meanings. This article investigates the three different categories of Causative construction in Tāti and decides, based on the findings of Functional Linguistics, that being Causative/non-Causative is not a definite classification, but a continuum in which each verb finds its own place according to the agent of the event and its being intentional or unintentional.
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