incent : a big SOTA

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:03 PM -0800 1/26/06, James Smith wrote:
>Whoops, the examples I gave are verb - adjective
>pairs, not verb - noun pairs.

They also don't involve back-formation the way "incent" does, FWIW.

LH

>--- James Smith <jsmithjamessmith at YAHOO.COM> wrote:
>
>>  invent - inventive
>>  abort - abortive
>>  react - reactive
>>  adapt - adaptive
>>  act - active
>>  etc.
>>
>>  Then a whole group of words such as
>>  creat(e) - creative
>>
>>  --- Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM> wrote:
>>
>>  >   Can anyone name another verb that, like
>>  "incent,"
>>  > is formed by dropping the "-ive" from a familiar
>>  > English noun ?
>>  >
>>  >   JL
>>  >
>>  > "Mark A. Mandel" <mamandel at LDC.UPENN.EDU> wrote:
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>>  > I prefer it to "incentivize" [shudder].
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