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antipassivise

antipassivise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of antipassivize.

Meaning of antipassivize

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To convert (a clause, word, etc.) into the antipassive voice.
    • If we wish to form an agentive participle, we must first antipassivize the verb (the antipassive suffix being -ŋay).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 […]...

Forms of antipassivise

third-person singular presentantipassivises
present participleantipassivising
past participleantipassivised
pastantipassivised

Questions about antipassivise

What is antipassivise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Antipassivise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of antipassivize.

Words near antipassivise in the dictionary

  1. antipassive
  2. antipassive voice
  3. antipassives
  4. antipassivisation
  5. antipassivisations
  6. antipassivise
  7. antipassivised
  8. antipassivises
  9. antipassivising
  10. antipassivization
  11. antipassivizations

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