| "Cause" means one event leads to another event,this expression of causative situation can be called causative expression."Cause" is an important phenomenon in the grammar existed in human language.According to the materials we collected,we have not seen the research about the causative expression types of Zhuangdong language family which not only can promote the study of Zhuangdong language family,but also for linguistic typology and provide relevant materials, enriching empirical theory of profound significance.This thesis divided causative expression into eight types:order type, "shi" type,interval result type,interval object result type,conglutinate result type,homomorphism type,implication type,causative object type. And get the conclusion:in the Zhuangdong language family,the main type of causative expression are order type,"shi" type,interval result type, and interval object result type,whose comprehensive analysis are in low level of synthesis but in high degree of analyticity.There are more than one type of causative expression in Zhuangdong language family,but we have not yet found a kind of those language that has all types;A part of interval object result type in minority language Zhuangdong language family(ex.Zhuang,Mulao,Maonan,Shui) can be instead by conglutinate result type,and there is a little difference between Maonan & Shui languages and other languages:there is a causative dummy mark "vε~4","he~4" before the caused event;The dummy element of interval result type,such as dai~4(Buyi),ta(?)~2,t(?)k~7(Zhuang),dai~3(Dai),and da:n~3(Li) have the similar pronunciation which is also similar to Chinese word "de",but there is an empty dummy element in Mulao language.Based on the above conclusion and the materials collected,we get inferences as follows:1.Interval object result type is the inhere type, conglutinate result type is likely the new generation type.2.The interval object result type of Maonan & Shui language has the similar structure, so they are probably cognates according to the pronunciation.3.The dummy element of the interval result type has the close relationship to Chinese language:maybe they affect each other,and they are cognates.4. Interval object result type maybe come from interval result type,which has lost its dummy element by the time.If dummy element of Mulao is older,interval object result type may come from interval object result type,but if the two are in the same periods,we need more proofs to get the conclusion. |