anticausativisation
English
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Japanese 割る (waru, “to (cause to) break”) → 割れる (wareru, “to be broken”) |
Alternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom anticausative + -isation.
Noun
editanticausativisation (uncountable)
- (linguistics) The process by which a noncausative verb is morphologically derived from its causative counterpart.