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Meaning of "nonstative" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF NONSTATIVE

nɒnˈsteɪtɪv


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NONSTATIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Nonstative can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

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

WHAT DOES NONSTATIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of nonstative in the English dictionary

The definition of nonstative in the dictionary is a nonstative verb.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH NONSTATIVE

annotative · comitative · connotative · constative · creative · crepitative · dissertative · gravitative · hebetative · hesitative · incogitative · innovative · integrative · irritative · native · necessitative · resuscitative · stative · sustentative · voluntative

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NONSTATIVE

nonsporting · nonstandard · nonstaple · nonstarter · nonstatic · nonstationary · nonstatistical · nonsteady · nonsteroid · nonsteroidal · nonstick · nonsticky · nonstoichiometric · nonstop · nonstory · nonstrategic · nonstriated · nonstructural · nonstructured · nonstyle

WORDS THAT END LIKE NONSTATIVE

active · administrative · alternative · collaborative · comparative · conservative · cooperative · cumulative · decorative · derivative · in the negative · informative · initiative · legislative · narrative · negative · operative · qualitative · quantitative · relative · representative

Synonyms and antonyms of nonstative in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «nonstative» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF NONSTATIVE

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

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

Translator English - Chinese

nonstative
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

nonstative
570 millions of speakers
en

English

nonstative
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

nonstative
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

nonstative
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

nonstative
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

nonstative
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

nonstative
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

nonstative
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Nonstative
190 millions of speakers
de

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nonstative
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

nonstative
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

nonstative
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Nonstatif
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nonstative
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

nonstative
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

अस्थिर
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

nonstative
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

nonstative
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

nonstative
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

nonstative
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

nonstative
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

nonstative
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

nonstative
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

nonstative
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

nonstative
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of nonstative

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «NONSTATIVE»

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NONSTATIVE»

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Compositionality in Formal Semantics: Selected Papers by ...
NONSTATIVE, NONSUBINTERVAL verb phrases are verb phrases which are neither stative nor subinterval. Examples of such verb phrases are: die, walk to Rome, catch a fish, build a house. Since these verb phrases take the progressive  ...
Barbara H. Partee, 2008
2
The Syntax of Cape Verdean Creole: The Sotavento varieties
Furthermore, he was the first to observe that in the absence of TMA markers, the bare stem form ofthe verb expresses the simple past of nonstative verbs and the present of stative verbs. Silva's (1985, 1990) pioneering work on the Cape ...
Marlyse Baptista, 2003
3
The Semantics of Syntax: A Minimalist Approach to Grammar
Le niveau de la riviere est monte. (*if nonstative) The level of the river is gone up. However, I think it is incorrect to say that some lexical causatives, like (21 3b). must have a corresponding nonstative construction, like (214b), and cannot have a ...
Denis Bouchard, 1995
4
Complementation: Its Meaning and Forms
In pursuing the meaning restrictions on certain types of complements, I first observed that some complements can take stative or nonstative predicates, while others require nonstative: (2) a. Sherry happened to be 21 years old b. Sherry ...
Evelyn N. Ransom, 1986
5
A Grammar of Toqabaqita
Types of verbs There are two basic, cross-cutting classifications of Toqabaqita verbs: stative vs. nonstative (section 4.2.1), and intransitive vs. transitive (sections 4.2.2 and 4.2.3, respectively). Verbs can also be classified on the basis of other ...
Frantisek Lichtenberk, 2008
6
Telicity, Change, and State: A Cross-Categorial View of ...
... nonstative both in the se and non se forms (e.g. enfadar/enfadarse); (2) those that are nonstative in the se form but stative in the non se form (e.g. indignar/ indignarse), and (3) those that are stative in both forms (e.g. preocupar/ preocuparse).
Violeta Demonte, Louise McNally, 2012
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Linguistic Meaning (RLE Linguistics A: General Linguistics)
Historically the past participle may be either stative or nonstative,6 thus (3.2.8) is ambiguous: (3.2.8) The window was broken. The stative interpretation is “the window was already broken” and the nonstative interpretation is “the window got  ...
Keith Allan, 2014
8
Creoles, Contact, and Language Change: Linguistics and ...
Some of the verbs in Table 1 can have either transitive or intransitive uses. For example, pe can be glossed as 'to be afraid' or 'to fear (something)'. Interestingly, the verb kwe is stative in the sense of 'to think', but it is nonstative in the sense of  ...
Geneviève Escure, Armin Schwegler, 2004
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Aspect: An Introduction to the Study of Verbal Aspect and ...
Moreover, this distinction corresponds1 to that between stative and nonstative verbs. Thus we can give the general definition of progressiveness as the combination of progressive meaning and nonstative meaning. Naturally, then, stative verbs ...
Bernard Comrie, 1976
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The Ecology of Language Evolution
2.3.2.4 The STATIVE/NONSTATIVE distinction, which is useful in explaining the differing interpretations of predicates used in the NONDURATIVE and NONANTERIOR - as in im come "he came/he has come" and im laik filfulj'a sing " he/she ...
Salikoko S. Mufwene, 2001

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NONSTATIVE»

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Stative verbs – I'm lovin' them
Sometimes a stative verb is used as a replacement for a nonstative one. Shops that post signs saying, "Please enjoy your beverages outside" ... «Christian Science Monitor, Jan 13»
REFERENCE
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