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Definition of Performatives
1. performative [n] - See also: performative
Lexicographical Neighbors of Performatives
Literary usage of Performatives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Grammar of the Kachin Language by Ola Hanson (1896)
"... above mentioned performatives, the accent is retained on the ultima throughout
all its forms of inflection, provided that the tense and mode particles ..."
2. Gesenius Hebrew grammar by Wilhelm Gesenius, Emil Roediger (1851)
"In the Fut. and Part the Sheva under the performatives may always serve as a mark
of these conjugations. ..."
3. Hebraisms in the Authorized Version of the Bible by William Rosenau (1902)
"The translators in working on the M text simply rendered, in addition to the
subject, either pronouns, performatives, or suffixes, which the Hebrew syntax ..."
4. Wit and Wisdom from West Africa; Or, A Book of Proverbial Philosophy, Idioms by Richard Francis Burton (1865)
"7 and final, The change of words at the beginning instead of at the end of the
vocable, where performatives or affixes take the place of the Aryan suffixes. ..."
5. Gesenius ̓Hebrew Grammar by Wilhelm Gesenius, Benjamin Davies (1853)
"In the Fut. and Part, the Sheva under the performatives may always serve as a
mark of these conjugations. ..."
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