Meanings
adjectivedepictive (not comparable)
- not comparableOf or pertaining to depiction.
noundepictive (plural depictives)
plural depictives
- grammarA grammatical construction that indicates the state of a noun in relation to the action of a verb.
In this chapter, I address both the semantics of the Case-marking opposition in depictives in the East Slavic languages and also the syntax of depictive secondary predication in general.
2007, Kylie R. Richardson, Case and Aspect in Slavic, OUP Oxford, →ISBN, page 111
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivedepicted in a recognizable manner
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