decausativize

present singular third person decausativizes · participle present decausativizing · participle past decausativized · past decausativized · alternative decausativise

1. human sciencesTo function in manner that is not causative (e.g. The causative verb "melt" in He melts the ice decausativizes in The ice melts).

   Now I am ready to answer the first question — which causative verbs decausativize and which don't.

   2004, Journal of Slavic Linguistics: JSL. - Volume 11, Issue 1, page 181

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   Levin and Rappaport (1995) argue that causative verbs can decausativize when the eventualities described come about spontaneously without the external intervention of an agent.

   1998, Lexical Network Approach to Verbal Semantics, page 219

   Conversely, in order to decausativize, the non-causative event must be be^([sic]) able to occur without an external cause (unlike, for example, being cut or being amused, which require an agent or instrument).

   2013, Angeliek Van Hout, Event Semantics of Verb Frame Alternations, page 243