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  • noun grammar The property of being stative.

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  • Influenced by a paper by Liina Pylkkanen's 1991 "On stativity and causation," I've been pursuing the argument that certain psych verbs can't appear in certain syntactic frames.

    Class Notes: Why linguistic judgments are fuzzy GamesWithWords 2010

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