Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Belonging to or designating a class of verbs that express a state or condition.
- noun A verb of the stative class.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to a fixed camp or military post or quarters.
- In Hebrew grammar, indicating a physical state, or mental, intransitive, or reflexive action: said of certain verbs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Mil.), Obs. or R. Of or pertaining to a fixed camp, or military posts or quarters.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective grammar asserting that a subject has a particular property
- adjective military, obsolete, rare Of or relating to a
fixed camp , or military posts or quarters.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective ( used of verbs (e.g. `be' or `own') and most participial adjectives) expressing existence or a state rather than an action
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The development of reduplicated perfects with built in punctual meaning directly out of a "stative" requires the brunt of explanation.
New thought: A 2D matrix of eventive/non-eventive and subjective/objective 2009
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The development of reduplicated perfects with built in punctual meaning directly out of a "stative" requires the brunt of explanation.
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I know that the moment stative verbs crop up as a theme in a lesson, this example will be thrown at me.
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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.
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One nearly always prefixes single-syllable stative verbs with a 很 or 挺 （in Mandarin - Cantonese uses 好 almost exclusively.
On long time no see DC 2010
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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.
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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.
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Is an active-stative or subjective-objective syste...
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Is an active-stative or subjective-objective system more appropriate for earliest Common Proto-IE
Is an active-stative or subjective-objective system more appropriate for earliest Common Proto-IE 2009
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Is an active-stative or subjective-objective system more appropriate for earliest Common Proto-IE
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