Endopassive
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Endopassive is a noun meaning (grammar, of verbs, rare) Having passive form while predicating about something other than the subject of the passive voice construction.
Meaning
(grammar, of verbs, rare) Having passive form while predicating about something other than the subject of the passive voice construction.
More Meanings
- (grammar, rare) Being or relating to an endopassive.
- (grammar, rare) A verb with the form of a passive voice construction, but indicating the state of, or an action toward something other than its subject.
Example Sentences
4.6 Voicing of the initial consonant: endopassive derivation
Endopassives are: (a) introvert (not extrovert); (b) passive in the sense that the subject of the endopassive word was the object of the simplex [...] (c) unlike exopassives, the hypothetical subject of the simplex is grammatically and semantically not available
Word Forms
- endopassives
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include mediopassive, medio-passivization, pseudo-passive, passivizer, pseudopassive, mediopassivization.
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