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===Periphrastic causatives===
===Periphrastic causatives===
Using a periphrastic construction to express causatives often has the implicature of downplaying the agency of the agent or the degree of compulsion that the causation involved.
Using a periphrastic construction to express causatives often has the implicature of downplaying the agency of the agent or the degree of compulsion involved in the causation. Said degress can be fine-tuned further with the choice of the auxiliary verb of causation.


==Derivational morphology==
==Derivational morphology==