Meaning of "gerundival" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF GERUNDIVAL

gerundival  [ˌdʒɛrənˈdaɪvəl]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GERUNDIVAL

Gerundival is an adjective.

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

WHAT DOES GERUNDIVAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of gerundival in the English dictionary

The definition of gerundival in the dictionary is of, like, or relating to a gerundive.

TRANSLATION OF GERUNDIVAL

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• Translator English - Marathi: जर्डिन्डिवल
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GERUNDIVAL»

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

Binding and Filtering

Given the following two gerundival structures: (i) AuxNP... (ii) NP Aux . . . while (i) is acceptable for all speakers, (ii) is acceptable only for some. According to the analysis proposed in the text, we can now assume that, while (i) falls into the ...

Frank Heny, 1981

Sanskrit Grammar

In eyya (i. e. eyia) end, besides the neuter abstract eahaceyya (above, 12130), the adjective of gerundival meaning etuseyya (with aoristic e added to the root), and capatheyyh curse-bringing (or accursed), trom qapatha. 1217. Q?!' enya.

William Dwight Whitney, 2013

Issues in Italian Syntax

(b) *Ha Mario accettato di aiutarci. (16) (a) “Mario e disposto ad aiutarci. “Mario is ready to help us.” (b) *E Mario disposto ad aiutarci. But if the sentence is a gerundival adverbial clause, the situation is (essentially) reversed: the ordering Aux ...

Luigi Rizzi, 1982

Linguistic and Literary Studies in Honor of Archibald A. ...

Since such a form does exist - as a suffix in both singular and plural gerundival forms whose time reference must be that of the forms modified - it may have been a relative suffix once, one that became specialized as a gerundive. Gerundival ...

Mohammad Ali Jazayery, Edgar C. Polomé, Werner Winter, 1978

Historical English Syntax

Klopzig 1922: 378) a translation of a Latin gerundival construction with esse: (11) a. audiendus est he is to gehyrenne he is to hear 'he can/must be heard' (yEGram 255.12). b. quanti psalmi dicenda sunt hu fela psealma ...to singenne synt ...

Dieter Kastovsky, 1991

General and Theoretical Linguistics

Since such a form does exist - as a suffix in both singular and plural gerundival forms whose time reference must be that of the forms modified - it may have been a relative suffix once, one that became specialized as a gerundive. Gerundival ...

Mouton De Gruyter, 1978

Philosophy and Ethics: New Research

If directed on the world, the experience of the "hodological" space (a phenomenal "path space" of possibilities- impossibilities and imminences of action) is in the form of "gerundival perceptual description" of objects/events; that is, ...

Laura V. Siegal, 2006

A Minimalist Analysis of Participial Constructions: Towards ...

For instance, Basque may use tensed participial constructions not only adverbially (the gerundival construction), but also adnominally, as a relative construction (see 19: (a) subject relativization; (b) object relativization). Two other languages ...

Asier Alcazar Estela, 2007

Journal of the Polynesian Society

10 MELANESIAN MODES OF SPEECH By W. G. Ivens, Litt.D. Continued from Vol . U9, No. 4, p. 594. pron. dia, 3rd pers. pi., following. The whole is concluded by the addition of the noun suffix gna, which itself carries a gerundival force.

‎1941

The Journal of the Polynesian Society

10 MELANESIAN MODES OF SPEECH By W. G. Ivens, Litt.D. Continued from Vol . 49, No. 4, p. 594. pron. dia, 3rd pers. pl., following. The whole is concluded by the addition of the noun suffix gna, which itself carries a gerundival force.

‎1973