endopassive

endo- +‎ passive

endopassive (plural endopassives)

1. (grammar, rare) A verb with the form of a passive voice construction, but indicating the state of, or an action toward something other than its subject.
   • 2007, Axel Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, page 48:

     Endopassives are: (a) introvert (not extrovert); (b) passive in the sense that the subject of the endopassive word was the object of the simplex [...] (c) unlike exopassives, the hypothetical subject of the simplex is grammatically and semantically not available

endopassive (not comparable)

1. (grammar, of verbs, rare) Having passive form while predicating about something other than the subject of the passive voice construction.
2. (grammar, rare) Being or relating to an endopassive.
   • 2007, Axel Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, page 48:

     4.6 Voicing of the initial consonant: endopassive derivation

• exopassive
• endoactive
• pseudopassive