direct-inverse marking
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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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