direct-inverse marking
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Alternative forms
- direct/inverse marking
Noun
direct-inverse marking (uncountable)
- (grammar) 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
- inverse marking
- direction marking
- direct-inverse alignment
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