direct-inverse marking

noun

Definitions

  1. An inflectional category encoding the relative animacy of the agent and the patient of a…

    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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for direct-inverse marking. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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