stative

An overview of the competition between nominalising suffixes is presented here, followed by a study on the competition between -ness and zero-affixation (2) for the expression of the semantic category STATIVE. The results are compared depending on whether frequencies are taken by entry, i.e., as given by the BNC, or by sense, i.e., after manual sense classification of concordances in order to put to test the relevance of sense separations.

Third, oaths that refer to the past typically use preterite verb forms; those referring to the present tend to use "the prefixed stative ibassi" (p.

In Mordvin and some of the distantly related, prevalently Samoyedic and Ugric, languages, verbal agreement markers adjoining an adnominal phrase encode nonverbal, or stative, predication (Honti 1992 : 266-270; [phrase omitted] 1967 : 163; Wiedemann 1865 : 57).

[do' ([empty set] (x)), [use' ([empty set], water (y)])] CAUSE [[do' (water, [fill' (water (y), tank (z)])] CAUSE [BECOME be-in' (tank (z), water (y))]] (y) = marked actor, (z) = undergoer This two-place marked construction can, at the same time, alternate with a stative construction (26), which can be accounted for as another instance of marked undergoer assignment, since the slot for the potential actor has not been filled, which as a result triggers the codification of this non-selected potential effector actor as an OCA introduced by the preposition with.

Moseten distinguishes between general and stative causatives.

In the same way, Alexiadou (2005: 17) argues that "the get-passive is not permitted with stative verbs and verbs that do not allow for the subject of the construction to be interpreted as affected".