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Specializations => Morphosyntax => Topic started by: freknu on May 06, 2014, 06:32:48 AM

Title: Noun class, "possessing a quality"
Post by: freknu on May 06, 2014, 06:32:48 AM

If rísa "that which rises" (from rís "to rise") is agentive (performing an action), what is hvíto~hvítu "that which is white" (from hvít "white") (possessing a quality)? Subjective? Attributive? Qualitative?

Title: Re: Noun class, "possessing a quality"
Post by: Daniel on May 06, 2014, 11:09:36 AM

Same thing. Just that "agentive" implies intentional verbs :)

Title: Re: Noun class, "possessing a quality"
Post by: freknu on May 06, 2014, 11:19:49 AM

I was kind of suspecting that, although I thought it would have to be "intentional" to really be agentive.

Functional agentive and qualitative agentive?

Title: Re: Noun class, "possessing a quality"
Post by: Daniel on May 06, 2014, 11:46:03 AM

Due to standard nomenclature I'd say they're all still deverbal agentive nouns. But in some cases they don't come from intentional (or various other technical term) verbs.

Title: Re: Noun class, "possessing a quality"
Post by: freknu on May 06, 2014, 11:57:51 AM

Well, that's weird ...

:o