Questions tagged [statives]
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criteria to distinguish resultative from stative participles?
I was recently reading an article by David Embick (2004) in which he makes a ternary distinction among passive participles: 1. stative 2. resultative 3. eventive, contra. Wasow (1977) who ...
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Does English have [ inchoative aspect ]?
Does English have the [ inchoative aspect ] ?
The first passage quoted below says NO, but the second says YES. . . . So I guess it depends on the definition.
Is English generally/usually said to (...
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What does it mean for a verb to be stative, really?
What makes a verb stative in English?
I am not looking for various stativity tests, as these do not guarantee the verb really is stative. For example, no stativity test I have come across can account ...
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Formal test determining whether a verb is stative
Is there a formal test determining whether a verb is stative? For example, the following predicate looks stative, but it's not:
It's Valentine's Day. I have the chocolate, but I'm still missing the ...
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