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Stative
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- 1 Of a verb: asserting, generally intransitively, that a subject has a particular property or status. not-comparable
"Granted, then, that the original meaning of these verbs was stative, the fact that a number of them have more or less involuntary meaning admits of a ready explanation. From the idea of becoming, in which originally there was in all probability no idea of volition, the idea of becoming, happening independently of the will, might very readily be developed, and this may have taken place in the case of verbs with more or less involuntary meaning. After this involuntary type was once established, it is of course possible that it should have become independently productive, and that verbs expressing an involuntary action not derived from more original stative verbs should take the intransitive form. Such a process, however, does not seem to have taken place in Hebrew. The so-called intransitive verbs, therefore, to judge from the material in Hebrew, seem originally to have denoted states or conditions or a change of state, while the transitive verbs denoted actions."
- 2 Of or relating to a fixed camp, or military posts or quarters. not-comparable, obsolete, rare
"1805 On the Situation, Manners and Inhabitants of Germany; and the Life Of Agricola; by Cornelius Tacitus: Translated into English by John Aikin. The camp also was weak, being no more than a common one, such as the Romans flung up on their march. It has no appearance of ever having been stative."
- 1 (used of verbs (e.g. ‘be’ or ‘own’) and most participial adjectives) expressing existence or a state rather than an action wordnet
- 1 A construct asserting that a subject has a particular property.
Etymology
From Latin stativus.
From Latin stativus.
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