单词 | benefactive |
释义 | benefactive, a. (and n.)|bɛnɪˈfæktɪv| [ad. L. benefact-us capable of giving + -ive.] Used of an affix or verbal aspect, esp. in various American Indian languages, to indicate that a benefit is conferred on someone. Also as n., a benefactive form or set of forms.
1943W. L. Wonderley Notes on Zoque Gram. 92 The suffix -hay-..at times does not parallel indirect or benefactive uses in other languages. 1946E. A. Nida Morphology viii. 160 (caption) Benefactive indirective. 1947Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics XIII. 28/2 The benefactive suffix -y is suffixed to themes containing stems ending in a vowel or in w. 1964E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Transl. ix. 200 Voice specifies the relationship between the participants and the event indicated in the verb; e.g...benefactive (worked for him). 1965Amer. Speech XL. 116 In combining Zoque -hay-, a benefactive morpheme, with -pa, a present-tense morpheme, one should get only -hapya. |

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