"direct-inverse marking" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} direct-inverse marking (uncountable)
  1. (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. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Grammar Synonyms: inverse marking, direction marking, direct-inverse alignment, direct
    Sense id: en-direct-inverse_marking-en-noun-~tnQGTVY Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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