Alternation ‘Anticausative with /rasar/’ (Coded)

Anticausativization in the Hokkaido dialect employs the suffix /rasar/ as a morphological marker. Anticausativization in this dialect applies to the accomplishment transitive verbs. Direct objects in the active sentences correspond to the anticausative subject. Activity verbs can be anticausativized when the combination of verb and object implies a change of state.

Verb Meaning Verb form Basic coding frame Derived coding frame Occurs Comment # Ex.