addressivity

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noun

The quality of being addressive, of engaging in communication for the sake of one's interlocutor

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Meanings

nounaddressivity (plural addressivities)

plural addressivities

  1. human sciencesThe quality of being addressive, of engaging in communication for the sake of one's interlocutor

    Evidently, in certain languages some of these meanings may be expressed by special affixes (without a causative meaning), as, for example, the meanings of commitativity (cf. 6.3), addressivity (cf. 6.5) and mutuality (cf. 6.6) in Kabardian.

    1970, V.P. Nedyalkov, “On the Typology of the Polysemy of Verbal Affixes”, in Theoretical Problems of Typology and the Northern Eurasian Languages, →ISBN, page 97

Origin

From addressive + -ity.

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