Anticausative
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Anticausative is an adjective meaning (grammar, of an intransitive verb) Which shows an action affecting its subject, without indicating the cause.
Meaning
(grammar, of an intransitive verb) Which shows an action affecting its subject, without indicating the cause.
More Meanings
- (grammar) A verb or construction of this kind.
Word Forms
- anticausatives
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include noncausative, unaccusative, nonaccusative, impersonal, intransitive, unergative.
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