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    Certain verbs of causation are able to provide the outer structure for an intransitive complementive predication.

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    Hoe sa AP komme how so AP come, this rhetorical idiom is severely restricted in its constructional possibilities: both hoe how and sa so seem to belong to the idiom. The question generally describes a situation which the speaker has a negative judgment about, as is illustrated below:

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    a. Hoe komsto sa wiet / gemeen?
    how come.2SG so wet mean
    How did you get so wet / mean?
    b. Hoe komt de badkeamer sa wiet?
    how does the bathroom so wet
    How did the bathroom get so wet?
    c. *Ik kom sa wiet troch de rein
    I come so wet through the rain
    I became so wet through the rain

    Without hoe how and sa so, the verb komme come can freely be used as a verb of causation, as below, except that it preferably has the topic pronoun dat that as its subject:

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    a. (Dat komt) troch de rein
    that somes through the rain
    The rain has caused this
    b. De badkeamer komt sa wiet troch in lekkaazje
    the bathroom comes so wet through a leak
    The bathroom became so wet because there was a leak
    c. Dat komt troch in lekkaazje
    that comes through a leak
    It was caused by a leak
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      Author(s): Eric Hoekstra
      Category: Frisian Syntax
      Keywords: verbs of causation
      Version: 1.0, December 2015
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