Antipassive voice

The antipassive is a form of diathesis, that belongs to the verb morphology. An anti- passive form occurs when the primary object of a transitive action is not expressed, or only occurs in the form of a ( omittable ) adverbial. Sometimes that can actually primary object be expressed in such constructions as a secondary object, and then has a different case. The primary object is depending on the language either the direct or the indirect object. In most languages ​​, only one of the two objects will be repaid by an anti- passive.

Occurrence

Many Ergativsprachen form (rather than a passive form ), an anti- passive. These mainly include the Australian languages ​​, many languages ​​in America as well as some languages ​​on the other continents.

Example

Here is an example from the Anyua (Sudan / Ethiopia ) ( from the grammar of M. Reh (1996)):