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active category
a.k.a. actor category,agentive (category)
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)
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