Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Causing to be presented directly to the mind, as a notion; presentative: contradistinguished from
representative and symbolical. - In grammar, noting a class of words which present a definite conception of an object to the mind; not symbolic. J. Earle, Philology of the Eng. Tongue.
- noun A presentive word.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Philol.) Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination; -- distinguished from
symbolic .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Bringing a
conception ornotion directly before the mind;presenting an object to thememory ofimagination .
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Examples
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The so-called presentive is reinterpreted as a continuous action or state, again regardless of time reference.
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The so-called presentive is reinterpreted as a continuous action or state, again regardless of time reference.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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In other words, rather than reconstructing a separate voice, we might simply place the middle in a different aspectual category under the subjective distinct from the *r-less "proto-perfect" and further treat it as the marked "presentive" form of the subjective.
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In other words, rather than reconstructing a separate voice, we might simply place the middle in a different aspectual category under the subjective distinct from the *r-less "proto-perfect" and further treat it as the marked "presentive" form of the subjective.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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So either lengthening was avoided in *-as meaning that Jens is correct and there was a seperate phoneme *-z contrasting with *-s, at least briefly, or lengthening differences between "presentive" and "past" were as far as it went before the 2ps past in *-as evolved to *-es rather than expected **-os to match the presentive ending during Schwa Merger.
Nominative Lengthening and a reinterpretation of Szemerenyi's Law 2008
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The first word is the relative pronoun ipa meaning '(he/she) who' or '(it) which', the second is the presentive form of am 'to be', and the third is an adverb meaning 'forth' or 'ahead'.
Ipa ama hen 2010
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Evidently he's been taking advantage of my Etruscan dictionary where I equate a Proto-Etruscan *tau with 'to see, to behold' (note the presentive form tva '(he/she) sees; (it) is shown' is attested in TLE 98, 170 and 399) and I'm flattered.
Archive 2010-06-01 2010
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Evidently he's been taking advantage of my Etruscan dictionary where I equate a Proto-Etruscan *tau with 'to see, to behold' (note the presentive form tva '(he/she) sees; (it) is shown' is attested in TLE 98, 170 and 399) and I'm flattered.
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We need only compare the resulting hi-class presentive *CóC-e-i with a would-be preterite **CóC-e to understand that the change certainly helped to better phonetically distinguish between two almost homophonous forms.
Looking for a simple origin to Hittite's hi-class preterite 2009
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We need only compare the resulting hi-class presentive *CóC-e-i with a would-be preterite **CóC-e to understand that the change certainly helped to better phonetically distinguish between two almost homophonous forms.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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