decausativisation

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English[edit]

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Causative alternation

Examples
I open the door. → The door opens. He flew the kite. → The kite flew.

Alternative forms[edit]

decausativization

Noun[edit]

decausativisation (usually uncountable, plural decausativisations)

(linguistics) A process through which causative transitive verbs become noncausative and intransitive.

See also[edit]

anticausativisation

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