http://glottopedia.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Inchoative 2026-04-23T00:31:41Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.34.2 http://glottopedia.org/index.php?title=Inchoative&diff=17057&oldid=prev 2016-03-19T03:13:35Z

<p>Fixed wikilink on &quot;verbs&quot;. Removed pointless &quot;nowiki&quot; code that concealed part of the text.</p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 03:13, 19 March 2016</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Inchoative''' is a term used for [[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">verbs</del>]] whose meanings can be paraphrased as 'TO BEGIN TO...' (e.g. ''inflame'' and ''depopulate'') or verbs which express the beginning of a state or process, like ''harden'' (become hard), ''die'' (become dead) or ''break''. The term is also used in explicating the ambiguity of ''John will eat his lunch in an hour''<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;nowiki&gt;</del>: the inchoative reading is the one in which it will take an hour before John is to eat his lunch. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;/nowiki&gt;</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Inchoative''' is a term used for [[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">verb</ins>]]<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">s </ins>whose meanings can be paraphrased as 'TO BEGIN TO...' (e.g. ''inflame'' and ''depopulate'') or verbs which express the beginning of a state or process, like ''harden'' (become hard), ''die'' (become dead) or ''break''. The term is also used in explicating the ambiguity of ''John will eat his lunch in an hour'': the inchoative reading is the one in which it will take an hour before John is to eat his lunch.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>=== Link ===</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>=== Link ===</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> </table>

Mark Mandel http://glottopedia.org/index.php?title=Inchoative&diff=7800&oldid=prev 2009-02-15T16:19:30Z

<p>utrecht</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Inchoative''' is a term used for [[verbs]] whose meanings can be paraphrased as 'TO BEGIN TO...' (e.g. ''inflame'' and ''depopulate'') or verbs which express the beginning of a state or process, like ''harden'' (become hard), ''die'' (become dead) or ''break''. The term is also used in explicating the ambiguity of ''John will eat his lunch in an hour''&lt;nowiki&gt;: the inchoative reading is the one in which it will take an hour before John is to eat his lunch. &lt;/nowiki&gt;<br /> <br /> === Link ===<br /> <br /> [http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Inchoative&amp;lemmacode=660 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]<br /> <br /> {{dc}}<br /> [[Category:Morphology]]<br /> [[Category:Semantics]]</div>

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