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direct-inverse marking

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.30 in modern English

Syllables
di-rec-t-in-verse -mark-ing
IPA
33
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
7
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

direct/inverse marking (alternative)

Synonyms

inverse marking direction marking direct-inverse alignment

Questions

What does direct-inverse marking mean?
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.

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