Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
direct-inverse marking
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Remove ads
English
Alternative forms
- direct/inverse marking
Noun
direct-inverse marking (uncountable)
- (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
Remove ads
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads