Alternation ‘Anticausative (uncoded)’ (Uncoded)

An uncoded valency decreasing operation, whereby the original P argument/object of a transitive verb occurs as subject, with formal identity between the transitive – intransitive use of the verbal form, also called P-lability. The process is presented as taking place spontaneously, without an external causer, that is, however, part of the lexical representation of the verb (Haspelmath 1987, Levin & Rappaport Hovav 1995, Koonz-Garboden 2009).