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Definition of Constative
1. Adjective. (linguistics) Pertaining to an utterance relaying information and likely to be regarded as true or false. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Constative
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Constative
Literary usage of Constative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1904)
"This last idea is regularly denoted by the perfective compound with Kard.
$v\d!;ai "guard" is, I think, always constative, "preserve" occurring in ..."
2. A Grammar of New Testament Greek by James Hope Moulton (1906)
"In the same way we find that is always constative in NT, while the perfective , "
hunt down," occurs once in Mk I36, where " followed after " (AV and RV) is ..."
3. A Short Manual of Comparative Philology for Classical Students by Peter Giles (1901)
"This series is developed separately by the different languages, the prepositional
1 From this meaning arises the "constative " use of the Greek aorist, ..."
4. Review of Theology & Philosophy edited by Allan Menzies (1906)
"... hit"), or constative (indicating that the action has occurred, without
distinguishing steps in its progress) ..."
5. Conceptions of Social Inquiry by J. J. Snyman (1993)
"... in particular political and institutional interventions that transform contexts
without limiting themselves to theoretical or constative utterances even ..."
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