| 单词 | verb substantive |
| 释义 | > as lemmasverb substantive b. [After post-classical Latin verbum substantivum (5th or 6th cent. in Priscian), itself after Hellenistic Greek ῥῆμα ὑπαρκτικόν; compare also Middle French verbe substantif (c1325).] Expressing existence; in substantive verb (formerly verb substantive): the verb ‘to be’. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > verb > [noun] > other specific types of verb vocative verbc1414 activec1450 passivec1450 substantive verba1475 neuter1530 gesture1612 nominal1666 quiescent1720 reduplicative1756 dative verb1844 factitive1845 preterite-present1859 compound verb1863 pro-verb1868 preterito-presentia1870 preteritive present1872 action verb1877 verbid1914 inversive1931 eventive1946 hypothetical1957 non-factive1970 commonization1973 contrafactive1985 the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > verb > [adjective] > substantive substantivea1475 a1475 in D. Thomson Middle Eng. Grammatical Texts (1984) 94 What maner of verbis haue strenght to cowpull lyke case? Verbys substantyves, uerbes vocatyves, and uerbys hauyng strenght. How mony uerbes substantyues ben þer? iii..‘Sum’, ‘fio’, and ‘existo’. 1546 S. Gardiner Declar. True Articles (new ed.) f. clxi Euery verbe passiue and deponente, boroweth in his preterperfittens, of the verbe substantiue, to ioyne with his participle. 1577 W. Fulke Serm. Preached on Sundaye sig. Ciiiiv There bee infynite places of Scripture, where thys verbe substantiue est, can not bee otherwyse interpreted, then for significat. 1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 58 A verbe substantiue, or that which hath the force thereof gouerning two datiues. a1651 R. Steward Three Serm. (1658) 99 You may..take the word Passively, and then (by a Hebraism) understand in the Verb Substantive of the same signification. 1709 Brit. Apollo 12–14 Jan. This Expletive is usually attendant on the Verb Substantive. 1765 Philos. Trans. 1764 (Royal Soc.) 54 422 The verb substantive, in conformity to the Hebrew and Phœnician custom, has been apparently suppressed here. 1808 L. Murray Eng. Gram. Illustr. I. ii. vi. 118 The substantive verb followed by a verb in the infinitive mood,..as, ‘Ferdinand is to command the army..’. 1826 R. Whately Elements Logic ii. 57 The substantive verb being the only verb recognised by Logic. 1871 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue vi. 239 The ‘substantive verb’..is the verb which expresses least of all verbs; for it expresses nothing but to have existence. 1939 Year's Work Eng. Stud. 1937 29 The first person plural of the substantive verb given as Sanskrit smaḥ. 2006 Ériu 56 27 This alternative to using the normal subordinate subjunctive is of course available only with the substantive verb. < as lemmas |
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