causativeiterative
Causativeiterative is a theoretical grammatical concept used in linguistics to describe a single verbal form that encodes both causation and iterative repetition. In such constructions, the speaker indicates that the agent causes a patient to perform an action not just once, but repeatedly, across a stretch of time or multiple events.
In languages with a causativeiterative system, realization can be a bound morpheme attached to a verb stem,
Semantically, causativeiterative conveys repeated causation, often with nuances about intention, volition, and duration. It can entail
Typologically, causativeiterative is not universal and is best described as an isomorphic option in languages with
Scholarly discussion regards whether causativeiterative constitutes a distinct morphosyntactic category or a composite of existing causative