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antipassivize

antipassivize verb: to convert (a clause, word, etc.) into the antipassive voice.

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 antipassivize

third-person singular presentantipassivizes
present participleantipassivizing
past participleantipassivized
pastantipassivized
alternative formantipassivise

Origin of antipassivize

From antipassive + -ize.

Questions about antipassivize

What does antipassivize mean?
Antipassivize means to convert (a clause, word, etc.) into the antipassive voice.
What part of speech is antipassivize?
Antipassivize is a verb.
What is the past tense of antipassivize?
The past tense of antipassivize is antipassivized.

Words near antipassivize in the dictionary

  1. antipassivised
  2. antipassivises
  3. antipassivising
  4. antipassivization
  5. antipassivizations
  6. antipassivize
  7. antipassivized
  8. antipassivizes
  9. antipassivizing
  10. antipasta
  11. antipasti

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