"vertitive" source identified

Koontz John E John.Koontz at colorado.edu
Thu Oct 7 18:31:52 UTC 2004


On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Alan H. Hartley wrote:
> Thanks to Terry and (and to Linda for her dogged research), 'vertitive'
> and 'voltative' will be going to Oxford: we'll have to wait to see
> whether they pass editorial muster for inclusion in the OED.

I wonder about instrumental as a term for a morpheme indicating the
instrument (hand, mouth, foot, etc.) or modality (force, pushing, etc.)
used, or sometimes an impersonal agency (heat, wind, etc.) or for a form
embodying such a morpheme.  I assume it's there for a nominal case form.



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