Autocausative verb
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"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 |
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Spanish | Pedro se ofendió. |
Italian | Pietro si offese. |
Serbo-Croatian | Petar se uvrijedio. |
Polish | Piotr obraził się. |
Russian | Пётр обиделся. |
English | Peter became offended. |
[edit] References
- ^ Mair Parry. The Reinterpretation of the Reflexive in Piedmontese: Impersonal 'Se' Constructions. Transactions of the Philological Society, Vol.96:1 (1998) (63-116).