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  2. Privative adjective - Wikipedia

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    Privative adjectives are non-subsective, but behave differently from ordinary non-subsectives in important respects, at least in English. While ordinary non-subsectives such as the modal adjective "alleged" can only be used in attributive position , privative adjectives can be used either in attributive or predicative position .

  3. Privative - Wikipedia

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    A privative, named from Latin privare ' to deprive ', [1] is a particle that negates or inverts the value of the stem of the word. In Indo-European languages , many privatives are prefixes , but they can also be suffixes , or more independent elements.

  4. Adjective - Wikipedia

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    An adjective is privative if and only if the extension of its combination with a noun is disjoint from the extension of the noun. For example, fake is privative because a fake cat is not a cat. A plain nonsubsective adjective is an adjective that is not subsective or privative.

  5. Category:Adjectives by type - Wikipedia

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    Privative adjective; Proper adjective; S. Subsective modifier This page was last edited on 27 February 2024, at 16:39 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...

  6. Subsective modifier - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, a subsective modifier is an expression which modifies another by delivering a subset of its denotation.For instance, the English adjective "skilled" is subsective since being a skilled surgeon entails being a surgeon.

  7. Abessive case - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, abessive (abbreviated ABE or ABESS), caritive (abbreviated CAR) [1] and privative (abbreviated PRIV) is the grammatical case expressing the lack or absence of the marked noun. In English , the corresponding function is expressed by the preposition without or by the suffix -less .

  8. Grammatical category - Wikipedia

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    Lexical categories (considered syntactic categories) largely correspond to the parts of speech of traditional grammar, and refer to nouns, adjectives, etc. A phonological manifestation of a category value (for example, a word ending that marks "number" on a noun) is sometimes called an exponent .

  9. Grammatical mood - Wikipedia

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    e IPFV. TAM hina’aro like na DEIX vau SG tō DEF mei’a banana ra DEIX e hina’aro na vau tō mei’a ra IPFV.TAM like DEIX SG DEF banana DEIX 'I would like those bananas (you mentioned).' Mortlockese Mortlockese is an Austronesian language made up of eleven dialects over the eleven atolls that make up the Mortlock Islands in Micronesia. Various TAM markers are used in the language. Mood ...