Meaning of "factitive" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD FACTITIVE

From New Latin factitīvus, from Latin factitāre to do frequently, from facere to do.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF FACTITIVE

factitive  [ˈfæktɪtɪv]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FACTITIVE

Factitive is an adjective.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES FACTITIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Causative

In linguistics, a causative is a valency-increasing operation that indicates that a subject causes someone or something else to do or be something, or causes a change in state of a non-volitional event. Prototypically, it brings in a new argument, A, into a transitive clause, with the original S becoming the O. All languages have ways to express causation, but differ in the means. Most, if not all languages have lexical causative forms. Some languages also have morphological devices that change verbs into their causative forms, or adjectives into verbs of becoming. Other languages employ periphrasis, with idiomatic expressions or auxiliary verbs. There also tends to be a link between how "compact" a causative device is and its semantic meaning. Note that the prototypical English causative is make, rather than cause. Linguistic terms traditionally are given names with a Romance root, which has led some to believe that cause is the more prototypical. While cause is a causative, it carries some lexical meaning and is less common than make.

Definition of factitive in the English dictionary

The definition of factitive in the dictionary is denoting a verb taking a direct object as well as a noun in apposition, as for example elect in they elected John president, where John is the direct object and president is the complement.

TRANSLATION OF FACTITIVE

Find out the translation of factitive to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of factitive from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «factitive» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 作为的
• Translator English - Spanish: factitivo
• English: factitive
• Translator English - Hindi: factitive
• Translator English - Arabic: factitive
• Translator English - Russian: factitive
• Translator English - Portuguese: factitivo
• Translator English - Bengali: প্রয়োজক
• Translator English - French: factitif
• Translator English - Malay: Factitive
• Translator English - German: factitive
• Translator English - Japanese: 作為的な
• Translator English - Korean: factitive
• Translator English - Javanese: Factitive
• Translator English - Vietnamese: tác dụng chủ từ
• Translator English - Tamil: factitive
• Translator English - Marathi: तथ्यवादी
• Translator English - Turkish: ettirgen
• Translator English - Italian: causale
• Translator English - Polish: factitive
• Translator English - Ukrainian: factitive
• Translator English - Romanian: factitive
• Translator English - Greek: factitive
• Translator English - Afrikaans: faktitiewe
• Translator English - Swedish: factitive
• Translator English - Norwegian: factitive

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FACTITIVE»

Discover the use of factitive in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to factitive and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Case Grammar Theory

Things which are effected or created by the verbal action more properly belong to the Factitive case. The Objective case may occur as either subject or object with nonaction verbs and as the direct object of action verbs, but the notion of the ...

Walter Anthony Cook, 1989

Gemination in the Akkadian Verb

The only exception to this is sumrusu, from marasu "to be(come) ill, annoyed", which normally has a factitive S-stem (cf. 7.2.3); sumrusu serves as the ordinary stative or verbal adjective of marasu and is not restricted to literary texts, cf. CAD sv ...

N. J. C. Kouwenberg, 1997

Williams' Hebrew Syntax

141 Factitive Piel and Pual 207 • If a verb has a factitive meaning in the Piel, then the subject of the verb in the Piel causes its direct object to enter a state that can be described by the same verb in the Qal.208 o For example, the subject of the ...

Ronald James Williams, John C. Beckman, 2007

Grammar of Written Mongolian

The Factitive Verb 609. The factitive expresses the idea of causing an action. There are many verbs which cannot govern a direct object, e. g. iikii- "to die" or kebte- "to lie down." Yet the factitive of such verbs governs the accusative. tegiin-i  ...

Nicholas Poppe, Jr., 1974

A Grammar of Atong

on adjunct clauses §24.6 and §24.7 − on complement clauses of postpositions § 24.8 as we have seen above, the factitive morpheme has two allomorphs. the allomorph <=a> occurs when the host ends in /m/ or /p/, whether the syllable is plain ...

Seino van Breugel, 2014

Philological studies with English illustrations

The infinitive naturally expresses the factitive object. (5.) By a participle ; as, 'he was seen stealing? See Article on the Participle, infra. (6.) By an accusative and infinitive or supine ; as, ' they advised him to go.' See Article on the Infinitive, infra.

Josiah Willard Gibbs, Karl Ferdinand Becker, 1857

Historical Linguistics 1999: Selected Papers from the 14th ...

also the nonfactitive verbs from their factitive counterparts (contrast mediopassive yit2-k6t2íb2 with the mediopassive factitive yit2-káttab2). The function of qualitative ablaut in the Aramaic verb system is sketched in (7); the forms in bold  ...

Laurel J. Brinton, 2001

Semantics:

There are also transitive verbs which are factitive or operative- factitive, but not purely operative: e.g., 'make', 'produce', 'create', 'cause'. Such verbs are traditionally said to take an object-of-result*. In terms of our analysis, this may be either a ...

John Lyons, 1977

A Grammar of Hup

(95) t g g'uk hi-yé-éy t h ? wood bundle FACT-enter-DYNM 3sg 'Did the wood form (tie up into) a bundle all right?' (ru) In (96), the Factitive derives transitive ' step on (something)' from intransitive 'stand': (96) /ám [hi-g'et]-d'o/-/êh-êy, kéy-h , n h !

Patience Epps, 2008

A Grammar and Dictionary of Zaiwa (2 Vols.)

Many Tibeto-Burman languages share a common imperfective or factitive category which is much but not completely like the imperfective in Russian, as expounded by Van Driem (1993). Whereas the indication of factuality or Gegebenheit, the ...

Anton Lustig, 2010