[Lingtyp] agentive vs anticausative

[Sergey Loesov]

Dear colleagues,



Could you please suggest me studies of verbs which can be both agentive and
anticausative, such as the English *break*, *tear*, and *open*. In other
words, why some verbal notions are easily prone to anticausative
derivation, while others, such as e.g. *take* and *give*, are less so. How
does anticausative of such verbs relates to their passive?



Thank you very much!



Sergey
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