exopassive

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adjective

Affecting the subject of the passive voice construction.

Scrabble 22

Meanings

adjectiveexopassive (not comparable)
  1. Being or relating to the passive voice of certain verbs.
    1. not comparableraregrammarAffecting the subject of the passive voice construction.

      Exopassive verbs are viewed as directed towards the passive subject: 'to be beaten' naitake, 'to be fed' naimusa, 'to be given something' naitula.

      2002 February 10, Kala Tunu, “Tunu verbal system LONG”, in Conlang Mailing List, retrieved 14 Sep 2016
    2. not comparableraregrammarDerived from a transitive verb, indicating the object affected.

      An ‘exopassive’ of a transitive verb, according to Schuessler, may be a noun meaning "the thing that has been verb-ed", so that since *suk means ‘to lodge’, *sukh means ‘what is lodged in’—or, we may say, ‘a lodge’ (Schuessler 2007: 45).

      2011, Christopher Cullen, “Translating 宿 *sukh/xiu and 舍 *lhah/she—'lunar lodges', or just plain 'lodges'?”, in East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine, volume 33, page 88
  2. not comparablerarenatural sciencesAllowing exoelectron emission.

    When powder materials with conductive exopassive admixtures (graphite) are used the double peak around 250°C may be convenient for the main dose read out and the double peak around 450°C for dose information storage only.

    1971, G. Holzapfel, E. Cryssou, “Exoelectronic Properties of Al₂O₃-Solids”, in Vagn Mejdahl, editor, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Luminescence Dosimetry, Risø, →ISBN
nounexopassive (plural exopassives)

plural exopassives

  1. raregrammarA verb with passive form, indicating the state of or action toward the subject of the passive voice construction.

    [For endopassives,] unlike exopassives, the hypothetical subject of the simplex is grammatically and semantically not available

    2007, Axel Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, page 48

Origin

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