direct-inverse marking
An inflectional category encoding the relative animacy of the agent and the patient of…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.
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable)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.
Synonyms
3 synonymsinverse markingdirection markingdirect-inverse alignment
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable