antipassivization
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English
Alternative forms
- antipassivisation (Non-Oxford British spelling)
Etymology
From antipassive + -ization.
Noun
antipassivization (countable and uncountable, plural antipassivizations)
- (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 (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
References
- “antipassivization, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
