Passive-like and anticausative forms
Interpret a changed argument structure without assuming every possible form is idiomatic.
Рабочие строят дом has an external agent and direct object. Дом строится backgrounds the agent and makes дом the nominative subject.
- Transitive: рабочие строят дом.
- Passive-like: дом строится.
- Naturalness remains lexical; not every theoretically possible reflexive is neutral.
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