Meanings
- uncountableThe quality of being jussive.
Vowellessness of the third radical letter of imperative in verb forms 1, 4, 13, and fourteen is the result of the jussiveness of imperative by lām, […]
2021, Sayyid Muhammad Rida Tabatabaʼi, translated by Mohammed Mehdi Baghi, “Reduplicated Verbs”, in Arabic Morphology Made Simple, London: ICAS Press, →ISBN, footnote 4, page 872 more examples
Jussiveness is certainly a common factor of all four occurrences, but nʾ cannot be a simple verbal imperative ‘take!’ (with Samadi 115, to an unknown √*nā).
1990, D[avid] N[eil] MacKenzie, “Commentary”, in The Khwarezmian Element in the Qunyat al-munya, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, →ISBN, page 89In the same vein, the imperative reading on verbs arises from the syntactic checking of injunctive force and the pragmatic role feature of hearer – a relation that Zanuttini (2008) identifies as a Spec-head configuration between jussiveness and addressee features.
2012, Virginia Hill, Mihaela Pirvulescu, “French Object Clitics, L1 and Left Periphery”, in Sandrine Ferré, Philippe Prévost, Laurice Tuller, Rasha Zebib, editors, Selected Proceedings of the Romance Turn IV Workshop on the Acquisition of Romance Languages, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 180Synonyms: jussivity
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe quality of being jussive.
Origin
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