英和和英

語源

From de- +‎ causative +‎ -ize.

動詞

decausativize (third-person singular simple present decausativizes, present participle decausativizing, simple past and past participle decausativized)

1. (linguistics, of a causative verb) To function in manner that is not causative (e.g. The causative verb "melt" in He melts the ice decausativizes in The ice melts).
   • 1998, Lexical Network Approach to Verbal Semantics, page 219:

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

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

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

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

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