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Some languages Morphologically distinguish stative and dynamic verbs, or transform one into another. Arabic , for example, can use the same verbal Root to mean ''ride'' (stative) and ''mount'' (dynamic). Propositions that are expressed in most Indo-European Language s by noun qualifiers (such as Adjective s), are instead expressed by stative verbs in many other languages. In Japanese , so-called ''i-''adjectives are in fact best analyzed as Intransitive stative verbs (for example, ''takai'' alone means "is high/expensive", and ''samukunakatta'' means ''was not cold''). In languages where the Copula is a verb, it is a stative verb, as is the case in English ''be''. Some other English stative verbs are ''believe'', ''know'', ''seem'', and ''have''. All these generally denote states rather than actions. However, it should be noted that verbs like ''have'' and ''be'', which are usually stative, can be dynamic in certain situations. The following are not stative: :You are being silly. :She is having a baby. ''Think'' is stative when it means "believe", but not when it means "consider". FORMAL DEFINITIONS In some theories of formal Semantics , including David Dowty's, stative verbs have a Logical form which is the Lambda expression l(x): x Apart from Dowty, Z. Vendler and C. S. Smith have also written influential work on aspectual classification of verbs. ENGLISH STATIVE VERBS Dowty gives some tests to decide whether an English verb is stative. They are as follows:
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