Comparative Concept: active category (str)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
active category (str)
| Typ | strategy (def) |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | active category • agentive • actor • actor category • agentive category |
| Assoziiert | |
| Spraakbanken | active category (str) |
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Hierarchy
Definition
the morphosyntactic category in the active alignment system that co-expresses some S roles – in particular, the S role of 'walk' – and the A role. Example: in Lakhota, the index ya- 'you (sg.)' in ó-ma-ya-kiye 'you help/helped me' and ya-ʔu 'you (sg.) are coming' expresses the active category. (Section 6.3.3)