... >> Social Science >> Linguistics >> Avertive
Highest Rated Sign

Nobody has posted a sign yet.
Avertive
-
Definition: A grammatical form that denotes an action or event narrowly avoided, figuratively or literally. The form liketa in a sentence such as 'It was so cold I liketa froze to death' functions as an avertive.
Source: American English, second edition by Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes
- There are no comments for this topic.