The present study is intended to provide a descriptive analysis of canonical causative constructions in modern Uyghur. Lexical, morphological and analytic causative constructions are employed in modern Uyghur. Lexical causative is less productive, and its use seems to be restricted to very specific domains without a morphological marker. By contrast, morphological causatives are undoubtedly the most frequent means of expressing causatives,nand they are highly productive with both transitive and intransitive verbs. These productive single causatives are mostly regular; the choice of the suffixes is phonologically determined. Double causatives derived from intransitive and transitive bases in Uyghur result in different surface realizations. No more than two different causative morphemes can be iterated in the causative construction. Therefore, Uyghur does not permit any iteration of the triple causative. In this sense, the double causative in Uyghur is different from that of genetically related languages (for example Turkish) with respect to the nature and amount of causative morpheme reduplication. This study shows that the morphological causatives in Uyghur share universal tendencies in terms of causative devices and valence increasing operations in the argument structure of causative verbs in canonical situations. Although the scope of this paper is limited to one individual language, its findings would be relevant for studying causative constructions in other languages.