asseverative
English
editEtymology
editFrom asseverate + -ive.
Adjective
editasseverative (comparative more asseverative, superlative most asseverative)
- Characterized by asseveration; asserting positively.
- (linguistics) Serving to emphasize the certainty or truth of a statement.
- 1990, Bruce K. Waltke, Michael Patrick O'Connor, An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax, page 211:
- Further, it is strongly possible that the emphatic or asseverative lamed is etymologically distinct from the preposition, though the Masoretes do not distinguish the two.
- 2013, William M. Schniedewind, A Social History of Hebrew:, page 152:
- A prosthetic 'aleph was added in Hebrew […] and this gave a graphemic distinction between the negative and the asseverative, but the asseverative nevertheless eventually disappeared in Hebrew and other Canaanite dialects.
- 2018, Eran Cohen, The Modal System of Old Babylonian:
- Delimiting the forms which belong to the asseverative paradigm can be achieved only for some of the forms based on morphological criteria alone.
Derived terms
editNoun
editasseverative (plural asseveratives)
- (linguistics) A linguistic structure that serves to emphasize the certainty or truth of a statement.
Italian
editAdjective
editasseverative