Comparative Concept: inactive category (str)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
inactive category (str)
| Typ | strategy |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | inactive category • patientive • stative category • undergoer |
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the category in the active alignment system that co-expresses some S roles – in particular, the S role of 'die' – and the P role. Example: in Lakhota, the index ma- 'I/me' in ó-ma-ya-kiye 'you help / helped me' and ma-khuže 'I am sick' expresses the inactive category. (Section 6.3.3)