antipassivize

English

Alternative forms

antipassivise (Non-Oxford British spelling)

Etymology

Verb

antipassivize (third-person singular simple present antipassivizes, present participle antipassivizing, simple past and past participle antipassivized)

(transitive, linguistics) To convert (a clause, word, etc.) into the antipassive voice.
- 1985, Avery Andrews, “The major functions of the noun phrase”, in Timothy Shopen, editor, Language Typology and Syntactic Description, volume I: Clause Structure, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire […]: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 153:
  If we wish to form an agentive participle, we must first antipassivize the verb (the antipassive suffix being -ŋay).

Related terms

antipassivization
antipassivized (adjective)

References

^ “antipassivize, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

[1] “antipassivize, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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