Meaning of fientive | Babel Free

Definitions

1. designating a durative and dynamic action performed by the subject
   not-comparable
2. designating entering into a state as opposed to being in a state
   not-comparable

Examples

“This underlines again that a contrast of nominality versus verbality conveys a stative versus fientive purport.”

“The basic idea is that what previous scholarship categorised as a stative, viz. the various forms going back to a derivation with a long ē, is in fact a fientive, i.e. it designates the becoming and not the being.”

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