antipassivize

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From antipassive +‎ -ize.[1]

Verb

antipassivize (third-person singular simple present antipassivizes, present participle antipassivizing, simple past and past participle antipassivized)

  1. (transitive, linguistics) To convert (a clause, word, etc.) into the antipassive voice.
    • 1985, Avery Andrews, “The major functions of the noun phrase”, in Timothy Shopen, editor, Language Typology and Syntactic Description, volume I: Clause Structure, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire […]: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 153:
      If we wish to form an agentive participle, we must first antipassivize the verb (the antipassive suffix being -ŋay).

References

  1. ^ “antipassivize, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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