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PRONUNCIATION OF INCHOATIVE

inchoative  [ɪnˈkəʊətɪv] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INCHOATIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Inchoative is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES INCHOATIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Inchoative aspect

Inchoative aspect is a grammatical aspect, referring to the beginning of a state. It can be found in conservative Indo-European languages such as Latin and Lithuanian, and also in Finnic languages. It should not be confused with the prospective, which denotes actions that are about to start. The English language can approximate the inchoative aspect through the verbs "to become" or "to get" combined with an adjective. Since inchoative is a grammatical aspect and not a tense, it can be combined with tenses to form present inchoative, past inchoative and future inchoative, all used in Lithuanian. In Russian, inchoatives are regularly derived from unidirectional imperfective verbs of motion by adding the prefix по-, e.g. бежать - побежать: "to run" - "to start running". Also cf. шли vs. "Пошли!" meaning approximately "Let's get going!". Certain other verbs can be marked for the inchoative aspect with the prefix за-. In Latin, the inchoative aspect was marked with the infix -sc-. The term inchoative verb is used by generative grammarians to refer to a class of verbs that reflect a change of state; e. g.

Definition of inchoative in the English dictionary

The definition of inchoative in the dictionary is denoting a verb that refers to the beginning of something.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INCHOATIVE


administrative
ədˈmɪnɪstrətɪv
alternative
ɔːlˈtɜːnətɪv
collaborative
kəˈlæbərətɪv
comparative
kəmˈpærətɪv
conservative
kənˈsɜːvətɪv
continuative
kənˈtɪnjʊətɪv
cooperative
kəʊˈɒpərətɪv
decorative
ˈdɛkərətɪv
derivative
dɪˈrɪvətɪv
evacuative
ɪˈvækjʊətɪv
evaluative
ɪˈvæljʊətɪv
informative
ɪnˈfɔːmətɪv
initiative
ɪˈnɪʃɪətɪv
legislative
ˈlɛdʒɪslətɪv
narrative
ˈnærətɪv
negative
ˈnɛɡətɪv
nonevaluative
ˌnɒnˈɪˌvæljʊətɪv
quantitative
ˈkwɒntɪtətɪv
relative
ˈrɛlətɪv
representative
ˌrɛprɪˈzɛntətɪv

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INCHOATIVE

incestuousness
inch
inch by inch
incharitable
Incheon
inchmeal
inchoate
inchoately
inchoateness
inchoation
inchoatively
Inchon
inchpin
inchtape
inchworm
incidence
incident
incident room
incidental
incidental damages

WORDS THAT END LIKE INCHOATIVE

active
affirmative
authoritative
creative
cumulative
illustrative
imaginative
imperative
in the negative
indicative
innovative
integrative
investigative
lucrative
native
normative
provocative
qualitative
sales representative
speculative
tentative

Synonyms and antonyms of inchoative in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «inchoative» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INCHOATIVE

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

Translator English - Chinese

发端
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

incoativas
570 millions of speakers

English

inchoative
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

प्रारंभिक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

inchoative
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

начинательный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

incoativa
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ক্রিয়ার আরম্ভসূচক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

inchoative
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Inchoative
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

inchoative
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

起動相
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

inchoative
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Inchoative
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mở đầu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

inchoative
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अपरिहार्य
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

başlama ifade eden
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

inchoative
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

inchoative
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

начінательний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

inchoative
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

inchoative
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kiem
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

inchoative
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

inchoative
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of inchoative

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INCHOATIVE»

The term «inchoative» is normally little used and occupies the 146.786 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INCHOATIVE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about inchoative

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INCHOATIVE»

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1
Syntax: A Linguistic Introduction to Sentence Structure
[Motion] verbs can be accompanied by all three participants exemplified in 33: 35 We flew from London to Peking via Islamabad 18.5 Inchoative and causative- inchoative verbs 18. 5a (Causative-) inchoative verbs and participants Two other  ...
E. K. Brown, Keith Brown, Jim Miller, 1991
2
The Grammar of Causation and Interpersonal Manipulation
I will discuss first cases of non-directed alternations between the inchoative and causative meanings18 of labile verbs produced by an inchoative derivation from a basic stative verb. However, I will show in Section 3.1.1.3 that in some ...
Masayoshi Shibatani, 2002
3
Cognitive Linguistics and Non-Indo-European Languages
The causative/inchoative alternation is a type of transitivity alternation which is frequently found in the world's languages, including those as diverse as Thai and English. The term “transitivity alternation” refers to a change in the expression of ...
Eugene H. Casad, Gary B. Palmer, 2003
4
Up and Down the Cline--the Nature of Grammaticalization
Use of inchoative linguistic representations for non-inchoative events is a rhetorical technique for which parallel evidence exists from other languages. Latin had an inchoative verbal suffix -sc- which could freely be added to aspectually ...
Olga Fischer, Muriel Norde, Harry Perridon, 2004
5
The Structure of Stative Verbs
20) that cognitive perception verbs in English are ambiguous between a pure stative and an “inchoative” reading. Thus, a perception verb like see is either stative as in (229a) or “inchoative” as in (229b). Dowty notes that as soon as the stative ...
Antonia Rothmayr, 2009
6
Syntax: An Introduction
*She moved there by John The similarity between active-inchoative middle-voice clauses and reflexives is neither spurious nor purely semantic. In many languages, it is also a diachronic derivational relation. Thus for example, the ...
Talmy Givón, 2001
7
Understanding English Grammar: A Linguistic Introduction
Inchoative. Inchoative aspect describes the event of entering into a state: 'She got tired.' (32) ( The terms inchoative and inceptive often confuse English grammar teachers and students, but English grammar itself ...
Thomas E. Payne, Thomas Edward Payne, 2010
8
Contemporary Approaches to Romance Linguistics: Selected ...
THE INCHOATIVE INTERPRETATION OF THE IMPERFECTO ALICIA CIPRIA University of Alabama 0. Introduction The inchoative or inceptive reading of the imperfecto, when the beginning of an event is signaled to start taking place afier the ...
Julie Auger, J. Clancy Clements, Barbara Vance, 2004
9
Morphological Analysis in Comparison
inchoative, but in others, it appears to be causative: in this case, how does the child come to learn that a semantic relation between senses of the same predicate can be realized either by an anti-causative or a causative derivation? There are ...
Wolfgang U. Dressler, 2000
10
A Unified Theory of Verbal and Nominal Projections
We also predict that even in English the causative verbs that alternate with inchoative verbs cannot be nominalized. It is not easy to bear out these predictions by abstracting away from irrelevant peripheral data, since the lexical causation, ...
Yoshiki Ogawa Research Associate at the Graduate School of Arts and Letters Tohuku University, 2001

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INCHOATIVE»

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1
Ce qu'annonce réellement l'Apple Watch
Le propre d'Apple a toujours été moins l'innovation inchoative que la mise sur le marché de manière opportune d'objets qui réussissent à ... «Le Huffington Post, Oct 14»
2
Arts Commedia
... sunlight-infused performance space—by Chuck Tingley; an abstract expressionist work of predominant red paint incised with inchoative cup ... «Artvoice, Apr 14»
3
Edward G. Bisone's Paintings at the New Art Dialogue Gallery
... immediately certain—the circle forms are too tentative, too inchoative, nervously scratched into the surface layer applied paint—incidentally, ... «Artvoice, Dec 13»
4
College of Arts and Sciences welcomes 22 new faculty members
She also studies Sinhala syntax and semantics, including research on (in)volitive verbs, causative/inchoative alternations, and non-canonically ... «University at Buffalo Reporter, Aug 13»
5
Benedict XVI remarks on the relationship between faith and marriage
In fact, it is not devoid of goods that 'come from God the Creator and are included, in a certain inchoative way, in the marital love that unites ... «Catholic World Report, Jan 13»

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