Genitive vs Venitive - What's the difference?
genitive | venitive |
(grammar) Of or pertaining to that case (as the second case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses origin or possession. It corresponds to the possessive case in English.
(grammar, uncountable) An inflection pattern (of any given language) that expresses origin or ownership and possession.
(grammar, countable) A word inflected in the genitive case; a word indicating origin, ownership or possession.
Indicating motion to or toward a thing.
* 2007 , Loretta O’Connor, Motion, Transfer and Transformation: The grammar of change in Lowland Chontal , John Benjamins Publishing Company, ISBN 978-90-272-3106-2,
(linguistics) A grammatical word, particle, or inflection that indicates motion to or toward a thing; or, the indication so provided.
* 1994 , Joan L. Bybee, Revere Dale Perkins, and William Pagliuca, The evolution of grammar: tense, aspect, and modality in the languages of the world , University of Chicago Press, ISBN 9780226086651,
As adjectives the difference between genitive and venitive
is that genitive is while venitive is indicating motion to or toward a thing.As a noun venitive is
(linguistics) a grammatical word, particle, or inflection that indicates motion to or toward a thing; or, the indication so provided.genitive
English
(wikipedia genitive)Adjective
(-)Noun
Derived terms
* (w) ----venitive
English
(Andative and venitive)Adjective
(-)page 131:
- The venitive suffix associates an event of ‘motion to or toward’ to the main verb.
Noun
(en noun)pages 11–12:
