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Anticausative verb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An anticausative verb is an intransitive verb that shows an event affecting its subject, while giving no semantic or syntactic indication of the cause of the event. The single argument of the anticaus...
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In grammar, a reflexive verb is a verb whose semantic agent and patient (typically represented syntactically by the subject and the direct object) are the same. For example, the English verb to perjure is reflexive, since one can only perjure oneself. In a wider sense, it refers to any verb form...
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Anticausative verbs are a subset of unaccusative verbs. Though for the most parts both terms turn out to be synonymous, some unaccusative verbs are more obviously anticausative, while others (''fall'', ''die'', etc.) are not; In English, many anticausatives are of the class of "alternating ambitransitive verbs",
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FreeWikiMedia is your place with tons of articles, do not miss it. In linguistics, an unaccusative verb is an intransitive verb whose (syntactic) subject is not a (semantic) agent; that is, it does not actively initiate, or is not actively responsible for, the action of the verb. From one language to another,
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In grammar, the voice (also called gender or diathesis) of a verb describes the relationship between the action (or state) that the verb expresses and the participants identified by its arguments (subject, object, etc.). the verb "ate" is in the active voice, but in the sentence: Also, transitivity may be used,
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Positive anticausative (Of an intransitive verb) which shows an action affecting its subject, without indicating the cause This page was last modified on 20 February 2007, at 02:34.
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The term "anticausative" derives from the fact that the intransitive form of such a verb implies a deletion of the agent of causation (the reverse of a causative construction), as if the event happened by itself: when a window breaks, we know it in fact it was broken (by some person, or by some physical alteration), bu...
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There are languages that have explicit morphology to transform a verb into a reflexive form. Main article: Anticausative verb "Anticausative" reflexive denotes that the (usually inanimate) subject of the verb undergoes an action or change of state whose agent is unclear or nonexistent.[5]
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