antipassivize

English

Alternative forms

• antipassivise (Non-Oxford British spelling)

Etymology

From antipassive +‎ -ize.

Verb

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

1. (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

• antipassivization
• antipassivized (adjective)