Autocausative verb

Top

Home > Library > Miscellaneous > Wikipedia

"Autocausative" reflexive denotes that the (usually animate) "referent represented by the subject combines the activity of actor and undergoes a change of state like a patient^[1]:

Language	Examples
Portuguese	Pedro se ofendeu.
Spanish	Pedro se ofendió.
Italian	Pietro si offese.
Serbo-Croatian	Petar se uvrijedio.
Polish	Piotr obraził się.
Russian	Пётр обиделся.
English	Peter became offended.

References

^ Mair Parry. "The Reinterpretation of the Reflexive in Piedmontese: Impersonal 'Se' Constructions". Transactions of the Philological Society, Vol.96:1 (1998) (63-116). http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1467-968X.00024?cookieSet=1.

Verb forms	Finite · Non-finite — Attributive · Converb · Gerund · Gerundive · Infinitive · Participle (adjectival · adverbial) · Supine · Verbal noun

Verb types	Accusative · Ambitransitive · Andative/Venitive · Anticausative · Autocausative · Auxiliary · Captative · Catenative · Compound · Copular · Defective · Denominal · Deponent · Ditransitive · Dynamic · ECM · Ergative · Frequentative · Impersonal · Inchoative · Intransitive · Irregular · Lexical · Light · Modal · Monotransitive · Negative · Performative · Phrasal · Predicative · Preterite-present · Reflexive · Regular · Separable · Stative · Stretched · Strong · Transitive · Unaccusative · Unergative · Weak

Adjective

Collateral · Demonstrative · Possessive · Post-positive

Adverb

Genitive · Conjunctive · Flat · Prepositional · Pronomial

Pronoun

Demonstrative · Disjunctive · Distributive · Donkey · Dummy · Formal/Informal · Gender-neutral · Gender-specific · Inclusive/Exclusive · Indefinite · Intensive · Interrogative · Objective · Personal · Possessive · Prepositional · Reciprocal · Reflexive · Relative · Resumptive · Subjective · Weak

Preposition

Inflected · Casally modulated

Conjunction

Determiner

Article · Demonstrative · Interrogative · Possessive · Quantifier

Classifier

Measure word

Particle

Discourse · Modal · Noun

Complementizer

Other

Copula · Coverb · Expletive · Interjection (verbal) · Measure word · Preverb · Pro-form · Pro-sentence · Pro-verb · Procedure word

This syntax-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer)

Donate to Wikimedia

Help us answer these

What is a consistense verb and a inconsistense verb?

Does a verb or verb phrase follow a linking verb or action verb?

Will die is that a helping verb or an main verb or an verb phrase or an not a verb?

Does a verb or verb phrase follow a linking or action verb?

Post a question - any question - to the WikiAnswers community:

Copyrights:

Cite

Wikipedia on Answers.com This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Autocausative verb. Read