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Re: state verb

From:Chris Bates <chris.maths_student@...>
Date:Sunday, January 2, 2005, 17:07
# 1 wrote:

> I tought about having in my conlang, all the state verbs derived from the > same root > > I could derive > > - to be (or maybe devided it in "ser" and "estar") > - to become
Become isn't a stative verb. It's active, because it involves a change of state, from not being something to being something.
> - to stay > - to seem > > from the same root > > > I will have a single root and change the suffix to change them > > I'll try to find a logic way to choose the suffixes > >
It seems like a better idea to me to do something like Arabic, and derive stative verbs from active verbs or vice versa. :) For instance, become is the active form of be, or be is the stative form of become. :)
> could you help me to find other state verbs (with different meaning)? > >
Here are some pairs: ACTIVE STATIVE get/acquire have die be dead mount ride/be riding/be mounted (this is a pair from Arabic) *thinks* you know, as soon as I started trying to think of them I couldn't think of many. But in general, for an active verb the stative form is often similar to "have ...-ed" in English, (since to have ....-ed implies a present state caused by a past event) which is why "I've got" is often used for "I have" (the continuing state caused by acquiring something is to have it).

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