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(98) Indonesian causative in -kan (Den Dikken 1995, 232)<br />

a. ratna tidur<br />

Ratna sleeps<br />

Ratna is sleeping<br />

b. Parto menidurkan ratna<br />

Parto sleepKAN Ratna<br />

Parto made Ratna fall asleep<br />

In (97) and (98), a (high) applicative is used to change the benefactee from an oblique,<br />

adpositionally-marked case to a bare noun phrase that immediately follows the verb. But<br />

when the applicative morpheme co-occurs with the adpositional phrase rather than<br />

replacing it, the result is a particle-verb construction as in (99).<br />

(99) Indonesian -kan as particle (Den Dikken 1995, 232)<br />

a. parto menulis nama saya<br />

Parto writes name my<br />

Parto writes my name.<br />

b. parto menuliskan nama saya di agendanya<br />

Parto writesKAN name my in his.agenda<br />

Parto writes my name up in his agenda.<br />

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