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(grammar, Semitic linguistics) designating a durative and dynamic action performed by the subject quotations examples
This underlines again that a contrast of nominality versus verbality conveys a stative versus fientive purport.
1977, Haiim B. Rosén, Contemporary Hebrew, page 182
(grammar, Indo-European linguistics) designating entering into a state as opposed to being in a state quotations examples
The basic idea is that what previous scholarship categorised as a stative, viz. the various forms going back to a derivation with a long ē, is in fact a fientive, i.e. it designates the becoming and not the being.
2007, George Hinge, “The Proto-Indo-European essive and fientive in Greek”, in glossa.dk, archived from the original on 29-07-2023