Re: Dynamic vs. Stative
- From: "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:19:20 GMT
Dr. Jamshid Ibrahim wrote:
No doubt the majority of English verbs are dynamic (not stative) since
life is transitory and subject to change. But since everything is
becoming fast and short either in length or duration the number of
stative verbs is becoming even smaller. There are of course verbs which
have two different meanings and accordingly can be stative or dynamic
as with the two most central verbs "be" and "have". For
instance "have" with its stative meaning "possess" and its
dynamic sense "eat". But even some former pure stative verbs like
"hope" have acquired a dynamic sense and consequently can be used
in the continuous tense as well. Does this mean no exclusively stative
verbs can survive?
What are some "stative" (please learn to use linguistic terminology
correctly) verbs that have been lost from English?
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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