direct-inverse marking (English, noun)
expansion: direct-inverse marking (uncountable)
Senses:
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glosses: 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.
tags: uncountable
Forms:
form: direct/inverse marking
tags: alternative