Abstract
“The English-Azerbaijani Dictionary” gives the following definitions for the words “causative” and “causation” in Azerbaijani: 1) Səbəbiyyət (act of causing); 2) Səbəblik (causation); 3) Hadisələr arasında səbəb əlaqəsi (causative relations among the events) [The English-Azerbaijani Dictionary, 2003]. Thus, by causativity or causation the linguistics mean the relations of cause and consequence. The category of cause and consequence has been attracting the attention of philosophers, textual critics and linguists since the antiquity. Bunge, who studied this category particularly, notes that the category of causation functions as a special type of mutual actions or mutual interdependence. The relation of cause and consequence as a philosophical category complete each other. As the human language reflects the realities, the relation of cause plays an important role as the category of time in the syntax of the sentence (Bunge, 1962).
Highlights
The relation of time and cause acquires certain importance from the point of view of expressing a certain speech situation
One may ask: “Are there studies devoted to causativity in the linguistics of Azerbaijan?” We imagine that the answer to the question will be like this: In the Azerbaijani language causativity finds its expression morphologically in the causative voice of the verb; it has not so much attracted the attention of the investigators
Causate differs from causator in its position
Summary
The relation of time and cause acquires certain importance from the point of view of expressing a certain speech situation. Time and cause relations differ from other syntactic relations by their broad sense of expressing opportunities. We are interested here not in cause and consequence relations, but in cause and consequence relations within a sentence taking place under the influence of the subject. We are interested in the phenomenon of causation, which takes place within one sentence. Causativity is a semantic unit formed on the ground of subject-object relations reflecting the causative sense in itself. Its obligatory participants are: a) generator (or source) of causation, which causes the object; b) object of causativity or causate. Two main participants of causativity (subject and object) determine the process of causation
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