ABSTRACT
As is well-known, two causative constructions, the o-and the ni – causative, have been
recognized in Japanese since the nineteen sixties. Likewise two causative constructions
have long been recognized in Romance languages, and they have been a subject of the
intensive study among Romance syntacticians. Recently, John Moore has made an
interesting discovery: the preinfinitival causee argument of the Spanish causative
construction obeys the same constraint as the subject of a categorical judgment. Moore
has proposed that the two Spanish constructions can be distinguished by assuming that
the embedded clauses present different types of judgments; the causative construction
Moore calls the hacer1 causative takes a thetic judgment as its complement clause, and
the one he calls the hacer2 causative takes a categorical judgment as its complement
clause. In the hacer2 construction the causee argument is pre-infinitival.
