antipassivize

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verb

To convert (a clause, word, etc.) into the antipassive voice.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person antipassivizes · participle present antipassivizing · participle past antipassivized · past antipassivized · alternative antipassivise

  1. transitivehuman sciencesTo convert (a clause, word, etc.) into the antipassive voice.

    If we wish to form an agentive participle, we must first antipassivize the verb (the antipassive suffix being -ŋay).

    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

Origin

From antipassive + -ize.

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