(Q14790)

Associated with actions performed on the subject by an unspecified agent. [McIntosh 1984,108] Refers to the category of verb forms, typically identifies with a specific morphological marking, that encode the derived diatheses in which the agent role is not linked with a subject noun phrase: Diatheis: D1=(X=AgOb)(Y+SUBabs/nom) [Shibatani 1995,7]