Head on over to englishinyourface.blog for a transcript of this podcast.

Also see my presentation on causatives

Let me give you a road map of what we are going to talk about today.

• First we will define what a causative is

• How it differs from other languages

• The terminology we’ll use to describe each element of a causative sentence, namely the subject, main verb, the agent, the causative verb, and the object.

• There are three causatives, and today I will talk about: 

• The different sentence constructions of causatives.

• How the main verbs and the causative verbs changes for each structure.