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Volume 18:7 July 2018
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Morphological Causative Construction in Hindi:
Its Phonological Conditions and Limitations

Hema, Ph.D. Student

Abstract

This study discusses about the morphological, syntactic, lexical causatives is Hindi on the basis of Comrie (1981) classification. Even though various works are available on Hindi causatives it still lacks a systematic classification which this study attempts to complete. In Hindi morphological causatives are quite developed, but it’s not free from the restriction, there are some verbs in Hindi which can’t be causativised, and some case marker which cannot be used in -a - causative so called as direct causative but can be apply with -va- causatives also called as indirect causatives, so in study the limitations of the Hindi causative verb construction have also been discussed.

Keywords: Direct causative (DC), Indirect causative (IC), suffix, cause, causer, verb, case marker

Introduction

Living in a society, we all have unavoidable interactions with other people daily. Often, we observe that our actions or activities are evoked from others’ action or involvement and vice versa. In other words, there exists a cause and effect relation between two people, induced by their interaction which in linguistic terms is known as causal expression. Shibatani has mentioned (2001:1) “every human language seems to possess a means of expressing the notion of Causation”. On the basis of such statement it can be said that causative expressions are an important part of linguistic and language teaching as they deal with notion of causation as well as study of several other aspects of linguistics.

The first objective this study’s is to present a systematic classification of Hindi causatives, this study is going to answer of the question like (1) what types of causatives are available in Hindi language. (2). What types of phonological conditions need to consider before applying causative suffixes (3) what are the semantic as well as syntactic restrictions in Hindi morphological causative construction. It is hoped that the result of this study will be helpful to understand the causative structure of Hindi .

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Hema, Ph.D. Student
Department of East Asian Studies
University of Delhi, India

Master’s Degree (2010) from Korea University, Seoul, South Korea
M.Phil. Degree (2012) from Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi, India
Email Id: hema.in.ko@gmail.com

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