Meaning and use of causeeless causative constructions with laten in Dutch

Abstract

"Analytic causative constructions in Dutch are constructions formed by an auxiliary, a form of the verbs doen or laten, in combination with a bare infinitive. Doen or laten forms the causal predicate that denotes the underlying cause; the bare infinitive forms the effected predicate that describes the effect or consequence. The analytic causative construction (from now on CC) has at least two participants: a causer, which is the subject of the construction, and a causee, which is the participant that ‘carries out’ the effected predicate"