Causative constructions are of great importance in typological studies of language. Therefore, the basic concern of the authors in this article has been primarily with the typology of causative constructions in Persian based on Comrie’s typological framework. On the other hand, causation plays a central role in everyday human experience. So, it can be considered as one of the integral parts of human cognition or according to Lakoff a notion that exists in our mind (thought). The results indicate that Comrie’s classification of causatives (morphological, lexical and analytic) is functionable in Persian. Moreover, the analysis reveals that in Persian, in addition to three types introduced by Comrie, there is another causative referred to

This research is concerned with the coding of causation, a topic that raises so many issues central to cognitive linguistics. Causation plays a central role in everyday human experience. So it can be considered as one of the integral parts of human cognition or according to Layoff a notion that exists in our thought. The present paper tries to study the relationship between the formalists' analysis of causality and the cognitivists' model, and also to explain how causatives are interpreted in the cognitive approach. The results indicate that the cognitive approach provides a relatively straightforward solution to the problems raised by formal approaches (eg case grammar), since it does not assume that situations in the real world are charac