| 释义 |
passival, a. Gram.|pæˈsaɪvəl|
[f. L. passīv-us passive + -al1; cf. adjectival, subjunctival.]
a. Pertaining to or used with the passive voice. rare.
1880Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue (ed. 3) §523 Our ears are still familiar in Bible English with this passival of.
b. Semantically passive, spec. passival verb, an intransitive verb with a quasi-passive meaning.
1892H. Sweet New Eng. Gram. I. 90 The book sells well, meat will not keep in hot weather... We call sells and keep in such constructions passival verbs. 1926H. Poutsma Gram. Late Mod. Eng. II. ii. xlvi. 64 Sweet..calls the verbs thus used passival verbs. 1950Eng. Stud. XXXI. 156 It is generally said that in a sentence like His books don't sell the verb is active in form, but passive in meaning, what is ‘really’ meant being His books are not sold. In accordance with this theory verbs used in this way are sometimes called active-passive or passival. 1961Y. Olsson On Syntax Eng. Verb vii. 180 That article, which..rightly rejects the analysis of such collocations as ‘active-passive or passival’. 1963F. T. Visser Hist. Syntax Eng. Lang. I. ii. 152 (heading) Intransitive verbs used to represent the action as quasi-automatic, or self-originated. (Sweet's ‘passival verbs’; Jespersen's ‘activo-passive’ use.) |