Causal vs Resultative - What's the difference?
causal | resultative |
of, relating to, or being a cause of something; causing
(linguistics) Indicating the state of a noun resulting from the completion of the action expressed by a verb, as with "blue" in "Mary painted the fence blue".
As adjectives the difference between causal and resultative
is that causal is of, relating to, or being a cause of something; causing while resultative is indicating the state of a noun resulting from the completion of the action expressed by a verb, as with "blue" in "Mary painted the fence blue".As a noun causal
is a word (such as because) that expresses a reason or a cause.causal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- There is no causal relationship between eating carrots and seeing in the dark.