expressing the beginning of an action; inceptive, as, in English, through the use of the auxiliary get (Ex.: “we got going early”)
noun
3.
an inchoative verb or phrase
Word origin
LL incohativus
Examples of 'inchoative' in a sentence
inchoative
Transitivity alternation refers to the causative/inchoative alternation of some unaccusative verbs.
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