Logos

CONSTRUCTIONcon.spa.causativa-con-hacer

construcción causativa con hacer

A pattern in which a verb of causing takes a nonfinite verb beside it, so one clause states both who brought an event about and the event itself.

The construction fuses two events into one clause with one finite verb, and the fusion is visible in how the caused participant is marked. Where the caused event has no object of its own, that participant is marked as a direct object; where it has one, the participant is marked as an indirect object instead, since the direct object position is already taken. That alternation is the clearest evidence in the language that the two verbs form a single predicate rather than a main clause with an embedded one, and it is not predictable from the meaning of either verb. Clitics standing for either participant attach to the finite verb rather than to the infinitive, which is the second piece of the same evidence.

statusstatus
documentedasserted, and the sources agree
provenanceprovenance
authoredwritten for Logos, from first principles
derivation statusderivation_status
unstatednobody has said whether it follows from anything
saliencesalience
No salience. Where no frequency source applies the object carries none, rather than a default or a guess (03-schema.md §3.5).
aliasesaliases
  • metalanguagecausative with hacer
sourcessources
  • SOURCENueva gramática de la lengua española (2009)src.nueva-gramaticano page in v1
  • SOURCEA New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish (Butt and Benjamin)src.butt-benjaminno page in v1

Why this is a construction at all

construction.admission

Goldberg's admission test: a template earns storage either by being unpredictable or by being frequent.

admissionadmission
unpredictableit is stored because its meaning does not follow from its parts

The slots

construction.slots

At least two, by the schema: fewer is not a multi-element template. Every filler is a link, never a name in prose.

  1. 0el causante, sujeto del verbo finitopositional: this slot is a place in the string, not a lexical requirement

    fillerslots[].filler
    No filler is named. For a positional slot that is the correct reading; for a lexical one it is a gap.
    functionslots[].fn
    FUNCTIONsujetofun.spa.sujeto

  2. 1el verbo causativo hacer, finitolexically specified: only the fillers below may occupy it

    fillerslots[].filler
    functionslots[].fn
    FUNCTIONnúcleofun.spa.nucleo

  3. 2el causado, que se marca como objeto directo o indirectopositional: this slot is a place in the string, not a lexical requirement

    fillerslots[].filler
    No filler is named. For a positional slot that is the correct reading; for a lexical one it is a gap.
    functionslots[].fn
    FUNCTIONcomplemento directofun.spa.complemento-directo

  4. 3el infinitivo, que aporta el evento causadolexically specified: only the fillers below may occupy it

    fillerslots[].filler
    functionslots[].fn
    No function is assigned to this slot.

Slot template

4 slots: 2 constrained, 2 positional, 3 naming a grammatical function.

  1. el causante, sujeto del verbo finito
    positional

    no lexical filler — this slot marks a position only

    names sujeto

  2. el verbo causativo hacer, finito
    constrained
    • verboclass

    names núcleo

  3. el causado, que se marca como objeto directo o indirecto
    positional

    no lexical filler — this slot marks a position only

    names complemento directo

  4. el infinitivo, que aporta el evento causado
    constrained
    • verboclass

Confusable with

construction.confusable

Objects a reader is likely to mix up with this one, and the difference that separates them. The edge is symmetric and stored once, so this renders on both objects' pages from the one statement.

Everything joined to this object

One group per typed edge, in both directions. A1b guarantees no object node is an orphan, so this is the whole navigation: an object with no edges would have failed the build rather than reached this page.

What this object is a kind of

Walking this object's own `is-a` edges: what it is a kind of. Several branches from one object are several classification axes, not competing supertypes.

objects
1
places drawn
1
multi-parent
None in this view. This subgraph happens to be a tree, which the explorer draws as one without assuming it is one.

Siblings are listed by name, then by id to break ties. That is a display choice made here and not an order the graph asserts.

Fan-out per dimension

A4

One row per dimension, largest first. That is a display order, not a verdict: 03-schema.md declares no threshold above which fan-out is too much, so this reports the count and grades nothing.

  • case13 values
  • mood8 values
  • voice8 values
  • aspect7 values
  • aktionsart6 values
  • number6 values
  • person6 values
  • tense6 values
  • comparison4 values
  • evidentiality4 values
  • gender4 values
  • politeness4 values
  • valency4 values
  • animacy3 values
  • definiteness3 values
  • deixis3 values
  • finiteness2 values
  • information structure2 values
  • interrogativity2 values
  • polarity2 values
  • switch-reference2 values

What kinds of this object there are

Walking the `is-a` edges that point at this object: what kinds of it there are. An object reachable two ways is drawn in both places and is still one object.

objects
1
places drawn
1
multi-parent
None in this view. This subgraph happens to be a tree, which the explorer draws as one without assuming it is one.

Siblings are listed by name, then by id to break ties. That is a display choice made here and not an order the graph asserts.

has-a

edges.has-a

the parent carries this

this object carries

selects

edges.selects

the parent requires this elsewhere

this object requires, elsewhere

  • CATEGORYnonfinitecat.nonfinitedocumented
    • conditionThe second verb is obligatorily nonfinite and takes no complementiser, which is what makes the pair one clause rather than two.

via

edges.via

this realizer, this way

this object realizes

derives

edges.derives

the why-chain

derived by