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However, this example got me thinking - I would have assumed that the language here would easily have the flexibility to combine 「可」with a stative verb to generate a meaning of "to become."

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  1. adjective Belonging to or designating a class of verbs that express a state or condition.
  2. noun A verb of the stative class.

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  • However, this example got me thinking - I would have assumed that the language here would easily have the flexibility to combine 「可」with a stative verb to generate a meaning of "to become." —  Popular Posts Across MetaFilter
  • A Note on Uto-Aztecan Consonant Gradation ablaut accent acholi acrostatic active adjarians-law adjective adverb aegean aeolic affix afro-asiatic agreement akhmimic akkadian aktionsart alignment aljutor allomorphy alphabet amharic amphikinetic analogy anatolian anthropology aorist aorist-passive aphasia apocope arabic aramaic arcado-cypriot archaeology areal-linguistics armenian arzawa aspect assimilation athematic auslautgesetz austronesian autosegmental aymara balto-slavic bantu basque bavarian berber boeotian bohairic bronze-age brugmanns-law caland-system cantonese carian case causative celtic ceramics child-phonology chinese chronology chukchee chumash cilicia clitic coalescence collective compound conspiracy cooccurrence coptic coptic-dialects copto-greek corinna cypro-minoan dante database decipherment definiteness denominative derivation desiderative distributed-morphology doric egyptian eichners-law ejective english epenthesis ergative estonian ethnogenesis etruscan etymology extension feature feminine fon fortis-lenis french frequency fricative full-grade geminate gender genitive georgian germanic glottalic grammarians grammaticalization grassmans-law greco-anatolian greek greek-dialects grimms-law group-writing h2e-conjugation hattian hausa hebrew hellenization herodian herodotus heteroclitic hi-conjugation hieroglyphic-luwian historiography hittite homer hurrian hypervoiced hypocoristic hysterokinetic identity ie-b ie-h1 ie-h2 ie-h3 ie-root-constraint ie-time-space i-motion imperative implosive indo-european indo-iranian infix internal-reconstruction ionic irish is-aorist italian italic japanese k-aorist kobon korean k-perfect labialized labiovelar lachmanns-law lakhota lambda-calculus language-acquisition language-contact laryngeal latin latvian laws lengthened-grade lesbian lesbos lexical-functional-grammar lifu loanword logic luganda luwian lycian lydian lyric magic mandarin mari markedness mediopassive metathesis metrical-stress metrics middle minoan mixtec mood mora mordwin morphology morphonology morphosyntax murmured-voice music mycenaean nahuatl narten-present nasal-present nationalism natural-language-processing neutralization nordwestblock noun no-underlying-form number obligatory-contour-principle odawa ofo o-grade old-church-slavonic old-hittite old-irish old-woman onomastics oo-correspondence opacity optative optimality-theory orality orientalism ortakoy orthography oscan palaic palatalization pamphylian panini papyrology particle pausanias pelasgian perception perfect persian pharyngeal pharyngealized phoenician phonetics phonology phrygian pitch place-of-articulation plene-writing pluperfect poetics preaspirated prefix-conjugation pre-greek prenasalized productivity prolog prominence pronoun prosody proterokinetic prothetic-vowel psi-greek quechua racism reduplication reference religion resonant review rgveda rhotacism root root-and-pattern root-noun rule-ordering runyambo sahidic salience sandhi sanskrit s-aorist sappho schwa schwa-secundum schwebeablaut semantics semitic serial-derivation shuswap sibilant sidetic sievers-law sindhi sino-tibetan ske-present slavic sociolinguistics sonority sound-law spirantization s-present s-preterite s-stem stammbaum stative stem structuralism subjunctive substrate suffix suffix-conjugation sumerian suppletion syllabification syncope syntax tamil tashlhiyt tcrs telepinus tense thematic-vowel thessalian thorn tibetan tigrinya tocharian tocharian-a tocharian-b tone transformational-syntax translation transposition trimoric troy typology tzutujil uganda ugaritic umbrian umlaut underspecification u-noun unpacking u-present uto-aztecan variation vendryes-law verb verners-law vietnamese vocabulary voice voiced-aspirate voiceless-aspirate voicing vot vowel vowel-harmony vowel-reduction winters-law x-bar yawelmani zapotec zero-grade CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Slide 18: Do Vs Make  +Tense V1: do V2: did V3: done  +Tense V1: make V2: made V3: made  Third person singular: does  Third person singlr: makes  ± stative This will do for the day. [+  - stative: She is making a video. / a only to mean something will be documentary enough or acceptable]  +subjunctive: I suggest he make  +subjunctive: It is important he do them work on their own. well. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • "Want" is a stative verb, and as such is rarely used in progressive forms. great article glen, but I disagree in two points —  Netvouz - new bookmarks
  • -- why, the great station at Ardoch, or that at Burnswark in Annandale, may be clearer, doubtless, because they are stative forts, whereas this was only an occasional encampment. —  The Antiquary — Complete
 

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  1. Latin statīvus, stationary, from stāre, stat-, to stand; see stā- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = Old French statif, from Latin stativus, standing still, from stare, stand: see state.
 

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