Asseverative
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Asseverative is an adjective meaning Characterized by asseveration; asserting positively.
Meaning
Characterized by asseveration; asserting positively.
More Meanings
- (linguistics) Serving to emphasize the certainty or truth of a statement.
- (linguistics) A linguistic structure that serves to emphasize the certainty or truth of a statement.
Example Sentences
Delimiting the forms which belong to the asseverative paradigm can be achieved only for some of the forms based on morphological criteria alone.
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.
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.
Word Forms
- asseveratives
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include avowed, affirmable, absolute, positive, affirmative, asserted.
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