Complex causative sentence
| . | sol | efficit | ut | omnia | floreant |
| Latin | son.M(NOM.SG) | effect:3.SG | that | all:NOM.PL.N | blossom:SUBJ.PRS:3.PL |
| the sun makes everything blossom (Cic. n.d. 2, 41) | |||||
Any verb with directive meaning in matrix.
Periphrasis
| . | mel | infervere | facito |
| Latin | honey.N(ACC.SG) | boil:INF.PRS | do:IMP.FUT |
| boil honey (Colum. 12, 38, 5) | |||
Not yet fully grammaticalized in Classical Latin.
Compounding
| . | a. | fores | patuerunt |
| Latin | door.F:NOM.PL | open:PRF:3.PL | |
| the door opened | |||
| b. | patefeci | fores | |
| open:do\PRF:1.SG | door.F:ACC.PL | ||
| I opened the door (Pl. Most. 1046) | |||
Compounding with facio almost exclusively with -e stems, thus, intransitive process verbs.
Compounding with -fico only with adjectival bases.
Thus, low functionality in terms of causativization.