"decausativize" meaning in English

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          "text": "Levin and Rappaport (1995) argue that causative verbs can decausativize when the eventualities described come about spontaneously without the external intervention of an agent.",
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          "text": "Conversely, in order to decausativize, the non-causative event must be be able to occur without an external cause (unlike, for example, being cut or being amused, which require an agent or instrument).",
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        "To function in manner that is not causative (e.g. The causative verb \"melt\" in He melts the ice decausativizes in The ice melts)."
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