An affix exists which attaches to a transitive verb, making it intransitive. The direct object argument becomes an oblique argument. <br><br> For example, in Greenlandic (Marantz 1984:151), the transitive sentence <i>anut-ip miirqa-t paar-ai</i> ‘man-<b>ERG</b> child-<b>PL.ABS</b> take.care.of-IND.3sg.3pl’ for <i>the man takes care of the children</i> can be made antipassive by suffixing <i>-si</i> to the verb and putting the direct object into the oblique instrumental case, as in <i>anut miirqu-nik paar-si-vuq</i> ‘man.<b>ABS</b> children-<b>INST</b> take.care.of-<b>ANTIPASS</b>-IND.3sg. <br><br>Notice that the absolutive argument becomes instrumental, the ergative argument becomes absolutive, and the verb only agrees with the absolutive argument. <br> <br> A construction where an affix makes a transitive verb intransitive, with the subject remaining in ‘subject’ case, and the object becoming oblique is to be considered antipassive. <br><br><b>Glossing Convention: </b>Antipassive affixes will be glossed ANTIPASS.

<br><br><b>Reference</b><br>
Marantz, Alec. 1984. <i>On the Nature of Grammatical Relations</i>. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 
