English Explanatory Dictionary

direct-inverse marking

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An inflectional category encoding the relative animacy of the agent and the patient of a transitive verb. If the patient has higher animacy of the two, this is expressed using the inverse form of the verb; otherwise, the verb appears in direct form.

Word forms

direct-inverse marking direct/inverse marking

Synonyms

inverse marking direction marking direct-inverse alignment
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