There is a large class of material processes of this kind where the agnate causatives are, or may be, attributive: the sun ripened the fruit/made the fruit ripen, her voice calmed the audience/made the audience calm; these will belong to the ‘initiating’ type — if we say the sun ripened, her voice calmed, the meaning changes from ‘make (ripe/calm)’ to ‘become (ripe/calm)’.
Sunday, 16 December 2018
Analytic Causatives With ‘Make’: Material ~ Attributive
Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 352):
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