LINB13H3 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Stative Verb, Spanish Verbs, Continuous And Progressive Aspects
11 Aug 2015
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Kimian vs. davidsonian stative verbs: patterns across language. Most people tend to think of verbs as describing an action. Most often the verbs describing states are called stative and verbs describing emotions or feelings are called linking (moghaddam, 2015). Stative verbs don"t always follow the same pattern of appearance as action verbs. They have a limited scope of engagement and most of the time appears in restrictive clauses. For example the english verb to love cannot appear in the progressive: ie, john can"t be loving mary however he can be playing soccer. The context of the verbs seems to be the same but the state verb does not allow the progressive aspect. Binnick (1991) notes that statives also appear to be persistent in their occurrence, ie: the verb playing might imply that john is playing now, but might not be playing sometime after; eventually he will have to stop playing soccer.
