decausativisation

noun

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

Scrabble 23

Meanings

noundecausativisation (usually uncountable, plural decausativisations)

plural decausativisations · alternative decausativization

  1. uncountableusuallyhuman sciencesA process through which causative transitive verbs become noncausative and intransitive.
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Chicago

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