Thank you for pointing out the problems in using Google search.
But grammaticality is totally different from frequency. For example, the hit count for 殴らせられる is very low but it no way means it's ungrammatical.
Also, frequency can be influenced by many factors outside grammar including...
Google hit counts for 動かせる (with auxiliaries to exclude potentials) .
"動かせられ" 12,900
"動かせたい" 2,160
"動かせてみる" 56,400
"動かせてあげる" 61,800
"動かせてくれる"101,000
"動かせてもらう" 107,000
Causativization is a general process and there is nothing to prevent it from applying to 動く.
I agree with what...
We are not discussing the history of verbal forms or terminology for them.
飛ばせる and 飛ばす are clearly diffrenent in meaning
飛行機を飛ばす ×飛行機を飛ばせる
飛びたくない人を説得して飛ばせる
×飛びたくない人を説得して飛ばす
飛ばす cannot be used for voluntary action (except in Western dialects where they use such causative forms as 飲ます, 食べさす...
A verb-final る preceding the consonant 'n'changes into ん in colloquial speech.
あるの→あんの
するな→すんな (Don't!)
食べるなら→食べんなら
This kind of contraction is not peculiar to Tokyo dialect. In Tokyo, the nagative form -らない often gets contracted as -んない too, e.g. 分からない→分かんない.
動く 動かす 動かせる 人に動かせる
飛ぶ 飛ばす 飛ばせる 人に飛ばせる
滑る 滑らす 滑らせる 人に滑らせる
乾く-乾かす-×乾かせる
減る-減らす-×減らせる
照る-照らす-×照らせる
沸く-沸かす-×沸かせる
So the generalization here (for -asu transitive verbs) is: the verb has the corresponding causative form if it can take an animate causee, it seems to me.
But we can say 本人の好きなように動かせた方が結局うまくいく
乾く-乾かす-×乾かせる
減る-減らす-×減らせる
照る-照らす-×照らせる
沸く-沸かす-×沸かせる
I think this is because a human being can't dry or shine voluntarily.
I'm sorry, I found 湿す in dictionary, but 私はハンカチをしめした sounds odd to me.
しめ・す【湿す】
[動サ五(四)]
1 水分を少し与える。しめらす。「ガーゼを―・して傷口をふく」「のどを―・す」
2 筆に墨をつける。転じて、手紙を書く。「一筆―・しまいらせ候」
3 水でぬらして火を消す。灯火などを消すことにもいう。
Basically fixed, though we have some freedom.
テレビ見 is clearly unacceptable, the rest may be accepted in some contexts but I don't remember having heard them.
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