Autocausative verb

Autocausative refers to a type of reflexive that denotes "in an overwhelming majority of cases, change of location or motion which the (human) referent causes by his own activity."{{Cite book |last=Geniušienė |first=Emma |title=The Typology of reflexives |date=1987 |publisher=Mouton de Gruyter |isbn=978-3-11-010677-0 |series=Empirical approaches to language typology |location=Berlin}} In this kind of event, "the mind or will of an animate entity initiates some movement of their own body [...] or a part thereof."{{Citation |last=Gaby |first=Alice |title=Reflexives and reciprocals |date=2023-06-13 |url=https://academic.oup.com/book/46706/chapter/410235683 |work=The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages |pages=360–377 |editor-last=Bowern |editor-first=Claire |access-date=2023-12-05 |edition=1 |publisher=Oxford University PressOxford |language=en |doi=10.1093/oso/9780198824978.003.0031 |isbn=978-0-19-882497-8|url-access=subscription }} The (usually animated) "referent represented by the subject combines the activity of actor and undergoes a change of state like a patient/subject."{{cite journal|last1=Parry|first1=Mair|title=The reinterpretation of the reflexive in Piedmontese: 'impersonal' SE constructions|journal=Transactions of the Philological Society|volume=96|issue=1|year=1998|pages=63–116|issn=0079-1636|doi=10.1111/1467-968X.00024}} Some Spanish examples include "verbs of displacement," such as {{lang|es|mudarse}} {{gloss|to move (in the sense of changing domicile)}}, {{lang|es|moverse}} {{gloss|to displace}}, and {{lang|es|desplazarse}} {{gloss|to displace}}, and "internal bodily motion," such as {{lang|es|agitarse}} {{gloss|to shake}}, {{lang|es|removerse}} {{gloss|to fidget}}, {{lang|es|revolverse}} {{gloss|toss and turn}}.{{cite journal |title= SE in Spanish: Properties, structures and analyses |first= Antonio |last=Fábregas |doi=10.7557/1.10.2.5934 |doi-access=free |journal=Borealis |volume=10 |issue=2|hdl=10037/23421 |hdl-access=free }}