anticausativisation

English
Examples

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

Alternative forms

Etymology

anti- +‎ causative +‎ -isation

Noun

anticausativisation (uncountable)

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

See also
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