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Offline freknu

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Noun class, "possessing a quality"
« 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?
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Re: Noun class, "possessing a quality"
« Reply #1 on: May 06, 2014, 11:09:36 AM »
Same thing. Just that "agentive" implies intentional verbs :)
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Re: Noun class, "possessing a quality"
« Reply #2 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?
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Re: Noun class, "possessing a quality"
« Reply #3 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.
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Re: Noun class, "possessing a quality"
« Reply #4 on: May 06, 2014, 11:57:51 AM »
Well, that's weird ...

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