anticausativisation

English

Examples
Japanese 割る (waru, “to (cause to) break”) → 割れる (wareru, “to be broken”)

Alternative forms

• anticausativization

Etymology

From anticausative +‎ -isation.

Noun

anticausativisation (uncountable)

1. (linguistics) The process by which a noncausative verb is morphologically derived from its causative counterpart.

See also

• anticausative
• decausativisation