jussiveness
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Jussiveness is certainly a common factor of all four occurrences, but nʾ cannot be a simple verbal imperative ‘take!’ (with Samadi 115, to an unknown √*nā)."
- "In the same vein, the imperative reading on verbs arises from the syntactic checking of injunctive force and the pragmatic role feature of hearer – a relation that Zanuttini (2008) identifies as a Spec-head configuration between jussiveness and addressee features."
- "Vowellessness of the third radical letter of imperative in verb forms 1, 4, 13, and fourteen is the result of the jussiveness of imperative by lām, […]"