Oraciones causativas en el inglés criollo de Costa Rica

Abstract

This paper describes two different strategies that are used in Costa Rican Creole English to express causative predications. On one hand, analytic causatives in vol ve several syntactic operations that allow insertion of complementizers, topicalization, and focus or contrast movements. On the other hand, in the case of lexical causatives, three different morphological operations that occur when noncausative verbs are con verted into causatives are discussed.