scholarly journals Causal necessity, causal sufficiency, and the implications of causative verbs

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prerna Nadathur ◽  
Sven Lauer
Keyword(s):  
Causal Necessity ◽  
Causative Verbs

Believers in The Land of Glory

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Wilson
Keyword(s):  
A Priori ◽  
Physical Data ◽  
Causal Necessity

We employ words like “cause” both to structure an investigative architecture and to register concrete physical data in light of that strategic background. As a result, “cause”’s referential significance becomes very complicated as the word progressively enters fresh patches of application. Jim Woodward’s studies have demonstrated the central role that considerations of manipulative control play in mapping out the contours of these strategic specializations. In contrast, analytic metaphysicians have attempted to carve out an a priori pre-science of causal necessity that falters through ignoring these developmental considerations. All in all, this essay presents a critique of necessitarian thinking not unlike that offered by Quine in his well-known “Two Dogmas of Empiricism.”

Patient arguments of causative verbs can be omitted

2001 ◽  
Vol 23 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 503-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adele E. Goldberg
Keyword(s):  
Causative Verbs

Tendenzen zur Affixderivation im Verbalbereich des modernen Chinesisch?

1989 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 630-637
Author(s):  
Helga Beutel
Keyword(s):  
Word Formation ◽  
Progressive Form ◽  
The One ◽  
Contemporary Chinese ◽  
Causative Verbs

Summary In the word formation of verbs in contemporary Chinese (putonghua) there are some one- syllable verbal morphemes that are attached to two-syllable (two-morpheme) verbs as a third syllable repeating synonymously tho meaning the two-syllable verbs already have. In this function the one-syllable verbal morphemes show properties of both compounds and derivations and represent a productive pattern of word formation forming semantically and syntactically uniform three-syllable verbs. In this connection we propose to treat verbs like dào “to say” that transform causative verba dicendi into non-causative verba dicondi and verbs like yŏu “to have, to exist” that substitute the function of the “aspect-suffix” zhe (“progressive form”) of verbs of existence as frequent constituents (“häufige Konstituenten”). Finally we suggest to treat huà “to change” as a quasi-suffix that transforms verbs, nouns, and adjectives into a certain subclass of causative verbs.

scholarly journals A New Argument for the Lexical Underspecification of Causers

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 803-824
Author(s):  
James E. Lavine ◽  
Leonard H. Babby
Keyword(s):  
Large Class ◽  
Argument Structure ◽  
Sufficient Condition ◽  
External Argument ◽  
Nominative Case ◽  
Mere Presence ◽  
Causative Verbs

This article shows how a systematic impersonalization alternation in Russian provides additional evidence for underspecification in argument structure. In the case of a large class of lexically causative verbs, the causer is realized either as a volitional Agent in the nominative case or as an oblique-marked, nonvolitional causer, depending on how the event is construed. A causative theory of accusative is advanced, according to which the mere presence of external causation is a sufficient condition for accusative licensing, including those cases that lack an external argument altogether. The analysis is extended to explain accusative preservation in the Icelandic “fate accusative” construction.

scholarly journals Al-Ghazali And Hume On Natural Causal Necessity And Miracles

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (- 1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Syed Jawad Ali Shah ◽  
Shuja Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Special Reference ◽  
Causal Relation ◽  
Natural Order ◽  
Logical Necessity ◽  
Causal Necessity

This paper argues that Al-Ghazali and Hume arrived at same conclusion i.e.both reject natural causality as a logical necessity however they provide very different premises for this conclusion. Moreover, Hume’s rejection of the natural causal necessity leads him to religious skepticism whereas, Al-Ghazali’s rejection of natural causal necessity leads him to have a strong faith in God and Miracles. The paper discusses the problem of causation in their philosophies focusing on the issues such as: causation as habit; uniformity in the natural order; causation is a mere sequence of observed things; whether causal relation is ontological or epistemological; issues related to miracles and diverse possibilities. Furthermore, the paper also focuses on the issue of Occasionalism and free will with special reference to Al-Ghazali and Hume.

Causal necessity

2016 ◽  
pp. 162-173
Author(s):  
Jonathan Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Causal Necessity

Processing Double Accusatives with Korean Dative/Causative Verbs: An ERP Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 111 ◽  
pp. 117-142
Author(s):  
Wonil Chung ◽  
Say Young Kim ◽  
Myung-Kwan Park
Keyword(s):  
Causative Verbs
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