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Equative (other)
Equative may refer to: *equative case, a grammatical case *equative construction, a grammatical construction using an adjective or an adverb in the comparative of equality *equative degree, another name for the comparative of equality *equative sentence An equative (or equational) sentence is a sentence where two entities are equated with each other. For example, the sentence ''Susan Copular verb#English, is our president'', equates two entities "Susan" and "our president". In English, equatives ...
, a sentence where two entities are equated with each other {{disambiguation ...
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Equative Case
The equative case (abbreviated ) is a grammatical case prototypically expressing the standard of comparison of equal values ("as… as…"). The equative case has been used in very few languages in history. It was used in the Sumerian language, where it also took on the semantic functions of the essive case ("in the capacity of…") and similative case ("like a…"). In Sumerian, the equative was formed by adding the suffix ''-gin7'' to a noun phrase, for example: In Ossetic, it is formed by adding the suffix ''-ау'' w The equative case is also found subdialectally in the Khalkha dialect of Mongolian, where it can be formed by adding the suffixes ''-цаа'' saa ''-цоо'' soo ''-цээ'' seeor ''-цөө'' söö depending on the vowel harmony of the noun. It is rare and highly specialized, used exclusively to denote the height or level of an object: In Archi, a Northeast Caucasian language, the equative case is indicated by the case marker ''-qʼdi'': It ...
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Equative Construction
An equative construction is a grammatical construction using an adjective or an adverb An adverb is a word or an expression that generally modifies a verb, an adjective, another adverb, a determiner, a clause, a preposition, or a sentence. Adverbs typically express manner, place, time, frequency, degree, or level of certainty by ... in the comparative of equality (also called "equative degree"). An equative construction equates a comparee with a standard in terms of a certain quality or action. In English, such a construction takes the form “as X as S”, where S is the standard. In modern French, the equative construction takes the form “aussi X que S”. Welsh has an equative degree of adjectives, usually indicated by the suffix ''-ed''; for example, "''hyned''" (''â'' ...)", meaning "as old (as ...)". References {{reflist Grammar ...
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Comparative Of Equality
The degrees of comparison of adjectives and adverbs are the various forms taken by adjectives and adverbs when used to compare two entities (comparative degree), three or more entities (superlative degree), or when not comparing entities (positive degree) in terms of a certain property or way of doing something. The usual degrees of comparison are the ''positive'', which denotes a certain property or a certain way of doing something without comparing (as with the English words ''big'' and ''fully''); the ''comparative degree'', which indicates ''greater'' degree (e.g. ''bigger'' and ''more fully'' omparative of superiorityor ''as big'' and ''as fully'' omparative of equalityor ''less big'' and ''less fully'' omparative of inferiority; and the ''superlative'', which indicates ''greatest'' degree (e.g. ''biggest'' and ''most fully'' uperlative of superiorityor ''least big'' and ''least fully'' uperlative of inferiority. Some languages have forms indicating a very large degree ...
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