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anticausativisation

anticausativisation noun: the process by which a noncausative verb is morphologically derived from its causative counterpart.

Noun

anticausativisation (uncountable)

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

Forms of anticausativisation

alternative formanticausativization

Origin of anticausativisation

From anticausative + -isation.

Questions about anticausativisation

What does anticausativisation mean?
Anticausativisation means the process by which a noncausative verb is morphologically derived from its causative counterpart.
What part of speech is anticausativisation?
Anticausativisation is a noun.

Words near anticausativisation in the dictionary

  1. anticatholics
  2. anticattle
  3. anticausal
  4. anticausative
  5. anticausatives
  6. anticausativisation
  7. anticausativity
  8. anticausativization
  9. anticausotic
  10. anticavity
  11. anticelebrity

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