noun
Meaning 1
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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