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antipassivizing

antipassivizing is the present participle and gerund 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 […]...

Questions about antipassivizing

What is antipassivizing the present participle and gerund of?
Antipassivizing is the present participle and gerund of antipassivize.

Words near antipassivizing in the dictionary

  1. antipassivization
  2. antipassivizations
  3. antipassivize
  4. antipassivized
  5. antipassivizes
  6. antipassivizing
  7. antipasta
  8. antipasti
  9. antipasto
  10. antipastoral
  11. antipastorals

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