Causative construction

Causative is a semantic label, referring to the meaning of a construction. So the way to tell whether a construction is causative is to know in advance what it means! If you're an English learner, that's probably not what you want to hear.

The examples you cite have actually been of interest to linguists because they illustrate how passive and causative meanings are sometimes expressed with the same syntax. I'll paste below relevant commentary from Lyons' 1967 paper A note on possessive, existential, and locative sentences.

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