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Meaning of direct-inverse marking | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

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.

uncountable

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

direct, straightforward directability Directed directed acyclic graph directed acyclic word graph directed edge

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