Semantic Features of MAKE Causative Structures (in English) and LÀM Causative Structures (in Vietnamese): A Contrastive Study

Đỗ Thị Phương Thúy *

Fundamental Faculty, Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam.
 
Review
International Journal of Science and Research Archive, 2024, 13(01), 446–456.
Article DOI: 10.30574/ijsra.2024.13.1.1674
Publication history: 
Received 30 March 2024; revised on 08 April 2024; accepted on 10 May 2024
 
Abstract: 
Causative structures have been studied quite a lot in researches in English and Vietnamese. Most of the works are descriptive, few works are comparative. This article focuses on comparing the semantic characteristics of the causative structures containing MAKE in English and LÀM in Vietnamese to point out the similarities and differences between these two languages.
 
Keywords: 
Ausers; Causees; Causative Verbs; Semantic Features; Causative Structures
 
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