Captative verb

Captative verbs indicate catching and hunting of the specific animal or other target, e.g. English to fish.

Usually captatives are not separately marked, but some Uralic languages do this. Nenets, Sami languages and Finnish have a captative marker for marking captative verbs; in Nenets, the marker is exclusively used for this purpose. For example, Northern Sami murjet "to pick berries" is derived from muorji "berry". Also, Finnish has captative verbs marked by -sta-, e.g. marja/sta/a "to pick berries", kala/sta/a "to fish", metsä/stä/ä "to hunt".

References

Tapani Salminen. Tundra Nenets grammatical sketch.

Lexical categories and their features

Noun

Verb

Forms	Finite Non-finite — Attributive Converb Gerund Gerundive Infinitive Participle (adjectival · adverbial) Supine Verbal noun

Types	Accusative Ambitransitive Andative/Venitive Anticausative Autocausative Auxiliary Captative Catenative Compound Copular Defective Denominal Deponent Ditransitive Dynamic ECM Ergative Frequentative Impersonal Inchoative Intransitive Irregular Lexical Light Modal Monotransitive Negative Performative Phrasal Predicative Preterite-present Reflexive Regular Separable Stative Stretched Strong Transitive Unaccusative Unergative Weak

Adjective

Adverb

Pronoun

Preposition/postposition

Conjunction

Determiner

Classifier

Measure word

Particle

Complementizer

Other

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