What does "depictive" mean?

A grammatical construction that indicates the state of a noun in relation to the action of a verb.

Depictive

Q: What is a synonym for "depictive"?

Common synonyms include: apish, delineative, descriptive, descriptive analysis, descriptive category label, descriptive data.

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Definitions

Noun

1
A grammatical construction that indicates the state of a noun in relation to the action of a verb.
"In this chapter, I address both the semantics of the Case-marking opposition in depictives in the East Slavic languages and also the syntax of depictive secondary predication in general."

Adjective

1
Of or pertaining to depiction. not-comparable

Adjective

1
depicted in a recognizable manner wordnet

Synonyms

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apish delineative descriptive descriptive analysis descriptive category label descriptive data

Antonyms

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abstract nonrepresentational textual verbal

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"In this chapter, I address both the semantics of the Case-marking opposition in depictives in the East Slavic languages and also the syntax of depictive secondary predication in general."

Etymology

From depict + -ive.

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