A Preliminary Work on Hindi Causatives

This paper introduces a preliminary work on Hindi causative verbs: their classification, a linguistic model for their classification and their verb frames. The main objective of this work is to come up with a classification of the Hindi causative verbs. In the classification we show how different types of Hindi verbs have different types of causative forms. It will be a linguistic resource for Hindi causative verbs which can be used in various NLP applications. This resource enriches the already available linguistic resource on Hindi verb frames (Begum et al., 2008b). This resource will be helpful in getting proper insight into Hindi verbs. In this paper, we present the morphology, semantics and syntax of the causative verbs. The morphology is captured by the word generation process; semantics is captured by the linguistic model followed for classifying the verbs and the syntax has been captured by the verb frames using relations given by Panini.