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Agan therefore is a stative verb with a strongly inchoative meaning (as is to be expected from its preterite-present etymology).
The location of the thing whose existence is being stated comes first, followed by its stative verb, followed by the thing itself.
Object must appear in all case frames and may appear more than once (for stative verbs and object complements, for example).
Quirk et al. (1985:675) indicate that the function of a preposition to express location is associated with stative verbs such as be, stand and live.
Transitive verbs predominantly belong to the first, which is the most common of the three, whereas the latter two typically characterize intransitives and stative verbs.
In a closure language, the perfective form of a stative verb has an ingressive meaning.
The most prominent early combining transitive verb, want, is not even an active but a stative verb.
In the examples we have seen, -zhe is attached to the main stative verb.
Predicates involving a stative verb are acceptable only to the extent that they admit a non-stative reading.
One difference is that survive is a stative verb, much like the verbs "to be" and "to have," as opposed to an action verb such as defend.
In some cases, its only function is to make a sentence predicated with a stative verb more polite.
To indicate that this final state has been achieved, the stative verb, which is related to the perfect, is used.
Here "be" is not a stative verb, so may occur in progressive forms.
For example, if there is a stative verb "to be large", the causative will simply mean "to enlarge", "to make grow".
A theme is denoted by a stative verb, whereas a patient is denoted by a dynamic verb.
