(By Jae Jung Song): "The causative construction is a linguistic expression which denotes a complex situation consisting of two component events (Comrie 1989: 165-166; Song 2001: 256-259): (i) the causing event, in which the causer does or initiates something; and (ii) the caused event, in which the causee carries out an action, or undergoes a change of condition or state as a result of the causer’s action...❡
Periphrastic causative constructions are causative expressions with the following three properties. First, the expression of the causer’s action (or the predicate of cause) and the expression of the causee’s action or change of condition or state (or the predicate of effect) must be in different clauses, as in (1). To put it differently, causative expressions, for the purposes of the map, must be biclausal. (The notion of biclausality being a continuum, however, the causative construction in one language (as in (5)) may be less biclausal than in another language (as in (1)); for further discussion, see Song 1996.)"