Languages differ in the way they code causal-noncausal alternations, in which an event is presented as either having an external causer or happening by itself. Some languages make no distinction between the two situations, while others make a morphosyntactic distinction. Yiddish, a Germanic language, differs from other genealogically close Germanic varieties: Yiddish codes causal-noncausal alternation similarly to the coterritorial Slavic languages with which it was in contact, for instance Polish and Russian. The two tendencies that make Yiddish similar to the Slavic languages in this respect are the rise of anticausative marking (direct calquing) and the development of a causative (preference for overt marking).

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区域视角下的意第绪语因果-非因果交替

语言在编码因果-非因果交替的方式上有所不同，在这种交替中，事件被呈现为具有外部原因或自行发生。有些语言不区分这两种情况，而另一些语言则区分词法句法。意第绪语是一种日耳曼语，不同于其他谱系上接近的日耳曼变体：意第绪语编码因果-非因果交替，类似于它所接触的领土范围内的斯拉夫语言，例如波兰语和俄语。使意第绪语在这方面与斯拉夫语言相似的两种趋势是反因果标记（直接计算）的兴起和使役（对公开标记的偏好）的发展。