Caught/Cot Merger
Dialects of English where “caught” and “cot” are pronounced the same ([kʰat]) have undergone the ‘caught/cot merger.’ (sociolinguistics)
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Causative
A verb that requires an agentive subject. This subject is then the reason for some event to occur. In some languages, verbs become causative with a derivational morpheme. (morphology)
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Causative
A causative construction involves the addition of a subject that causes an event. (syntax)
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