antipassivize
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- antipassivise (Non-Oxford British spelling)
Etymology
[edit]From antipassive + -ize.[1]
Verb
[edit]antipassivize (third-person singular simple present antipassivizes, present participle antipassivizing, simple past and past participle antipassivized)
- (transitive, linguistics) To convert (a clause, word, etc.) into the antipassive voice.
- 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:
- If we wish to form an agentive participle, we must first antipassivize the verb (the antipassive suffix being -ŋay).
Related terms
[edit]- antipassivization
- antipassivized (adjective)
References
[edit]- ^ “antipassivize, v.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.