All languages have ways to express causation but differ in the means. Most, if not all, languages have specific or "lexical" causative forms (such as English "rise" → "raise", "lie" → "lay", "sit" → "set"). Some languages also have morphological devices (such as inflection) that change verbs into their causative forms or change adjectives into verbs of "becoming". Other languages employ periphrasis, with control verbs, idiomatic expressions or auxiliary verbs. There tends to be a link between how "compact" a causative device is and its semantic meaning.