| 词汇 | inchoative |
| 释义 | inchoative adjective language specializeduk /ɪnˈkəʊ.ə.tɪv/ us /ɪnˈkoʊ.ə.t̬ɪv/ An inchoative verb expresses the beginning of an action, for example get in get dark or fall in fall silent: Another commonly occurring use is the inchoative construction. The corpus contains 75 instances of "get" with a past participle, and of these, more than a third may be considered inchoative. He distinguishes between three different formal relations of the causative and the inchoative verb respectively. Romance languages require the inchoative meaning to be marked by the use of the morpheme "se". Linguistics: verb forms, tenses & types of verbs accusative art bare infinitive bent continuous copula finite gerund non-finite non-progressive passive passivization perfective pluperfect present participle subjunctive the active voice the future perfect the past continuous the past tense Synonymingressive inchoative noun[ C ] language specializeduk /ɪnˈkəʊ.ə.tɪv/ us /ɪnˈkoʊ.ə.t̬ɪv/ an inchoative verb: In this context, the inchoative and the passive are semantically interchangeable. Japanese learners of English preferred short passives over inchoatives. The inchoative also occurs frequently in the perfective aspect. Linguistics: verb forms, tenses & types of verbs accusative art bare infinitive bent continuous copula finite gerund non-finite non-progressive passive passivization perfective pluperfect present participle subjunctive the active voice the future perfect the past continuous the past tense Synonymingressive |
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