Autocausative verb

Autocausative reflexive signifies that the (usually animated) "referent represented by the subject combines the activity of actor and undergoes a change of state like a patient/subject".^[1]

Language	Examples
Portuguese	Pedro tornou-se ofendido.
Spanish	Pedro se tornó ofendido.
Italian	Pietro divenne offeso.
Serbo-Croatian	Petar se uvrijedio.
Polish	Piotr został obrażony.
Russian	Пётр обиделся.
English	Peter became offended.

References

↑ Parry, Mair (1998). "The reinterpretation of the reflexive in Piedmontese: 'impersonal' SE constructions". Transactions of the Philological Society 96 (1): 63–116. doi:10.1111/1467-968X.00024. ISSN 0079-1636.

Lexical categories and their features

Noun

Verb

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

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

Adverb

Pronoun

Preposition/postposition

Conjunction

Determiner

Classifier

Measure word

Particle

Complementizer

Other

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