stative
IPA: stʌtɪv
noun
- (grammar) A construct asserting that a subject has a particular property.
adjective
- (grammar) Asserting that a subject has a particular property.
- (military, obsolete, rare) Of or relating to a fixed camp, or military posts or quarters.
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Examples of "stative" in Sentences
- Direct stative exclusive positive.
- It is a special kind of stative verb.
- This is the opposite of a stative verb.
- They can be both stative and non stative verbs.
- Adjective in Khmer are in actuality stative verbs.
- Is an active-stative or subjective-objective syste...
- Stative verbs can only appear with the stative aspect.
- Tire verbs are ntis classified as having non stative senses.
- But how can one learn that these verbs differ in that look is an active verb and see is stative
- Is an active-stative or subjective-objective system more appropriate for earliest Common Proto-IE
- I know that the moment stative verbs crop up as a theme in a lesson, this example will be thrown at me.
- One nearly always prefixes single-syllable stative verbs with a 很 or 挺 （in Mandarin - Cantonese uses 好 almost exclusively.
- The development of reduplicated perfects with built in punctual meaning directly out of a "stative" requires the brunt of explanation.
- Also, the use of the continuous can change what we might normally think of as a stative verb into a dynamic one, with consequent change in meaning.
- STATIVE ADJECTIVES One property belonging more to adjectives themselves than to their associated nouns is an active stative distinction similar to that found in verbs.
- This favorable tradeoff between recall values presents an advantage for applications that weigh the identification of stative clauses more heavily than that of event clauses.
- There is a group of verbs, moreover, that have two lexical roots, both referring to the same verbal concept, yet one representing its active aspect, and one representing its stative aspect.
- The problem is that the first pair she lists is *h₁es- 'to be' & *bʰeuh₂- 'to become' and if it's true that one is "active" and one is "stative" in a system where the active verbs are supposed to be marked by the *mi-set of pronominal endings and the stative verbs are marked by the *h₂e-set, then she and other Indoeuropeanists appear to have contradicted themselves2.