How To Use Stative In A Sentence
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According to F&F Foods, the current manufacturer of Sen Sen®, the candy straddled olfactive and gustative categorization at its inception and “In keeping with its perfumery roots, it was on the market list for many years as a cosmetic.”
Breath Perfumes
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In a fundamental conflict between constative force and performative possibility, the assuring parataxis itself begins to serve as a resistant marker of performatives that potentially contradict its simple narrative.
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In linguistic terms, these two poles are aligned with the constative and the performative, the latter being not quite identical with the expressive, since that category assumes a certain interiority which is not requisite for the performative.
Subjecticity (On Kant and the Texture of Romanticism)
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Also, the use of the continuous can change what we might normally think of as a stative verb into a dynamic one, with consequent change in meaning.
C is for Corpus « An A-Z of ELT
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When we close our eyes in gustative pleasure, the sense of hearing, smell, taste and touch are heightened.
Archive 2007-10-01
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At stake in this description is the very interruption of cognitive and performative language that de Man explains will emerge in the book itself — i.e., the interruption of the difference between a book about romanticism (cognitive, constative) and a book of romanticism and its disruption
'At the Far End of this Ongoing Enterprise...'
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I mean, so what if I use stative verbs in the progressive form, or use Chinese language structure for my English in daily usage?
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While explicitly posing the question of whether the performance of this ethical language can ever be free of the constative (the language of ontology), his own performance of the ethics of reading is impressive indeed.
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I mean, so what if I use stative verbs in the progressive form, or use Chinese language structure for my English in daily usage?
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This seems like a simple statement, what the linguistic philosopher J.L. Austin termed a constative utterance: a base level of communication, with no metaphor or secondary meanings attached.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 2
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If you think about it, the reduplicated form could easily lend a resultative nuance if analysed in this way since the reduplication would have originally stressed the non-stative quality of the verb either "repetitive" in nature as for punctual actions, or "continuative" as for non-momentaneous ones while the *h₂e-set of personal endings would ensure a completive aspect in contrast to the non-completive *mi-set.
Rethinking the reduplicated perfect in Indo-European
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The development of reduplicated perfects with built in punctual meaning directly out of a "stative" requires the brunt of explanation.
Archive 2009-09-01
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Wind hazard is the one which has the widespread influence in the nature disaster, and hurricane hazard is the most devastative and disastrous one.
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(Austin presents the distinction between performative and constative utterances.)
Pragmatics
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Three Random Words: la panosse (f) = floorcloth = passer la panosse = to mop the floor le monticule (m) = hillock, mound; heap la papille (f) = papilla = les papilles gustatives = taste buds
French Word-A-Day:
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One nearly always prefixes single-syllable stative verbs with a 很 or 挺 （in Mandarin - Cantonese uses 好 almost exclusively.
On long time no see
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Terroir extends beyond the gustative and into the olfactive, an important fact to remember when navigating among sensory menageries.
Archive 2008-09-01
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It appears that there's a symmetry between objective verbs marked with *-i ( durative, mi-class) and those unmarked by it ( aorist, past) on the one hand, and subjective verbs marked with *-r ( middle) and those without ( hi-class, perfect-stative) on the other.
Interesting quirks of a PIE subjective-objective model
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In a fundamental conflict between constative force and performative possibility, the assuring parataxis itself begins to serve as a resistant marker of performatives that potentially contradict its simple narrative.
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The argument that the act of stating or describing is in fact performative must take the form of constative statements.
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Performative criticism begins in the gap between constative sense and dramatic consequences.
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As inhabitants of modernity we might, however, first and foremost associate the “lost one” of patriotic melancholy with the nation state, that which paradoxically can never be lost, if patriotism has any constative or performative value to it.
Introduction
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Since 'to know' is not an action and since reduplication expresses a resultant state from an *action* as outlined above, naturally there can be no reduplicated forms possible for these stative verbs.
Archive 2009-09-01
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Violet pleasures exist in food and drink, though true gustative and olfactive creations are rare.
Violet Pleasures in Food and Drink
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The tension between the performative and constative emerges clearly also in literature, where the difficulty she encounters of separating performative and constative can be seen as a crucial feature of the functioning of language.
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One thing I'm finding is that other people list verbs that I would consider perfectly normal verbs as being statives.
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In linguistic terms, these two poles are aligned with the constative and the performative, the latter being not quite identical with the expressive, since that category assumes a certain interiority which is not requisite for the performative.
Subjecticity (On Kant and the Texture of Romanticism)
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Three Random Words: la panosse (f) = floorcloth = passer la panosse = to mop the floor le monticule (m) = hillock, mound; heap la papille (f) = papilla = les papilles gustatives = taste buds
Dorloter - French Word-A-Day
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Since 'to know' is not an action and since reduplication expresses a resultant state from an *action* as outlined above, naturally there can be no reduplicated forms possible for these stative verbs.
Archive 2009-09-01
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However, when developing his general theory of speech acts, Austin abandoned the constative/performative distinction, the reason being that it is not so clear in what sense something is done e.g. by means of an optative utterance, expressing a wish, whereas nothing is done by means of an assertoric one.
Him
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Exercise Five then asks learners to identify statives and adjective participles in an example paragraph.
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All texts are events, even when largely constative.
History against Historicism, Formal Matters, and the Event of the Text: De Man with Benjamin
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The photographs are evidence; their constative force, according to him, authenticates the existence of places witnessed firsthand from specific points of view and times of day.
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Big Island Bees Ohi'a Lehua Honey opens up with hints of pineapple, Anjou pear skin and a touch of toasted marshmallow; gustative qualities that are well-suited to its crystalline texture.
Ambrosial Delights of Varietal Honey
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In these terms, his intention may be constative, but it has performative effect, not to mention performative desire.
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Dynamic verbs are verbs that refer to actions. Stative verbs are verbs that refer to states, ie to a relatively stable state of affairs.
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I know that the moment stative verbs crop up as a theme in a lesson, this example will be thrown at me.
C is for Corpus « An A-Z of ELT
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The observation that ‘tokoro-da’ cannot combine with statives without enforcing a counterfactual interpretation can be explained by the redundancy ‘tokoro-da’ introduces if added to a stative.
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On the one hand, then, it can be taken as a representation of the semantic structure of be; at the same time, it can be taken as a schematic representation of any stative verb.
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So this is in part why I'm now pursuing a hunch that Arretium could perhaps be a Greek name in the end, namely from Erythrion, a name built on the word erythros 'red' ( durative, mi-class) and those unmarked by it ( aorist, past) on the one hand, and subjective verbs marked with *-r ( middle) and those without ( hi-class, perfect-stative) on the other.
Archive 2009-09-01
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The problem is that the first pair she lists is *h₁es- 'to be' & *bʰeuh₂- 'to become' and if it's true that one is "active" and one is "stative" in a system where the active verbs are supposed to be marked by the *mi-set of pronominal endings and the stative verbs are marked by the *h₂e-set, then she and other Indoeuropeanists appear to have contradicted themselves2.
Archive 2009-08-01
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Is an active-stative or subjective-objective syste...
Archive 2009-08-01
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Then too, the participles of verbs with intensifier un - don't generally permit stative readings.
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The development of reduplicated perfects with built in punctual meaning directly out of a "stative" requires the brunt of explanation.
New thought: A 2D matrix of eventive/non-eventive and subjective/objective
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Jasanoff's theories, the durative-aorist-perfect model, active-stative, and subjective-objective into a single coherent model that explains everything much clearer than what I'm finding in journals and books.
Archive 2009-09-01
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His speech act, ‘I confess to stealing the ribbon,’ is at once a constative (it describes something) and a performative (it does something, it produces the scene of guilt).
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On the other hand, some imperfectives are compatible with both present simple and present progressive, whereas others - the so-called statives, as in - are compatible only with the simple present.
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Assertion, by contrast, is the paradigm of a constative utterance.
Him
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Yet precisely because it is neither simply prescriptive nor descriptive, neither purely constative nor performative, heil risks rendering the
Patriot Acts: The Political Language of Henrich von Kleist
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If the progressive can only be used with imperfectives, why is it not possible to use the progressive with quintessential examples of stative predicates, such as be tall and know French?
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Austin had earlier (1956) initiated the development of speech act taxonomy by means of the distinction between constative and performative utterances.
Him
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There is a group of verbs, moreover, that have two lexical roots, both referring to the same verbal concept, yet one representing its active aspect, and one representing its stative aspect.
Archive 2009-08-01
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The gustative recognition is instant; every taste that John had described is inside these cookies; the small bits of chocolate, orange peel, traces of clove, fig paste, and hints of an espresso effect.
Archive 2007-12-01
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Is an active-stative or subjective-objective system more appropriate for earliest Common Proto-IE
Is an active-stative or subjective-objective system more appropriate for earliest Common Proto-IE
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However, when developing his general theory of speech acts, Austin abandoned the constative/performative distinction, the reason being that it is not so clear in what sense something is done e.g. by means of an optative utterance, expressing a wish, whereas nothing is done by means of an assertoric one.
Him
