Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word ANTIPASSIVE
ANTIPASSIVE
Definitions of ANTIPASSIVE
- (linguistics) Relating to the antipassive voice
- (linguistics) The antipassive voice
Number of letters
11
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using ANTIPASSIVE in a Sentence
- This construction is similar to the passive voice, in that it decreases the verb's valency by one – the passive by deleting the agent and "promoting" the object to become the subject of the passive construction, the antipassive by deleting the object and "promoting" the agent to become the subject of the antipassive construction.
- In Rgyalrong languages, denominal derivations are extremely developed and have given rise to incorporating and antipassive constructions.
- The antipassive voice deletes or demotes the object of transitive verbs, and promotes the actor to an intransitive subject.
- For example, the valency-reducing prefixes are *a(j)- (anticausative) and *a(p)- (antipassive) in finite verb forms, but *bi(t)- and *jə-/*ju-, respectively, in the nonfinite forms.
- For example, the valency-reducing prefixes are a(j)- (anticausative) and a(a)-, aw- (antipassive) in finite verb forms, but -pe(e)h-, -pẽh- and -jỳ-,/-jõh-, respectively, in the nonfinite forms.
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