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direct-inverse marking

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Alternative forms

  • direct/inverse marking

Noun

direct-inverse marking (uncountable)

  1. (grammar) An inflectional category encoding the relative animacy of the agent and the patient of a transitive verb. If the patient has higher animacy of the two, this is expressed using the inverse form of the verb; otherwise, the verb appears in direct form.

Synonyms

  • inverse marking
  • direction marking
  • direct-inverse alignment
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