antipassivization

English

Alternative forms

• antipassivisation (Non-Oxford British spelling)

Etymology

From antipassive +‎ -ization.

Noun

antipassivization (countable and uncountable, plural antipassivizations)

1. (linguistics) The process by which a clause, word, etc. is converted into the antipassive voice.
   • 2014, Narayan Prasad Sharma, Morphosyntax of Puma, a Tibeto‐Burman language of Nepal‎^[1] (thesis), London: University of London, archived from the original on 2024-05-10, page 69:

     What are the conditions for zero-detransitivisations and kha-antipassivisations?

Related terms

• antipassivize
• antipassivized

 

References

• “antipassivization, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.