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From Latin secundus (“secondary”) + -ative. Apparently coined by Martin Haspelmath (see Haspelmath, 2005).
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Today it means: In which the indirect objects of ditransitive verbs are treated like the direct objects of monotransitive verbs. Full definition →
From Latin secundus (“secondary”) + -ative. Apparently coined by Martin Haspelmath (see Haspelmath, 2005).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.