asseverative

English

Etymology

asseverate +‎ -ive

Adjective

asseverative (comparative more asseverative, superlative most asseverative)

1. Characterized by asseveration; asserting positively.
2. (linguistics) Serving to emphasize the certainty or truth of a statement.
   • 1990, Bruce K. Waltke, ‎Michael Patrick O'Connor, An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax, page 211:

     Further, it is strongly possible that the emphatic or asseverative lamed is etymologically distinct from the preposition, though the Masoretes do not distinguish the two.

   • 2013, William M. Schniedewind, A Social History of Hebrew:, page 152:

     A prosthetic 'aleph was added in Hebrew […] and this gave a graphemic distinction between the negative and the asseverative, but the asseverative nevertheless eventually disappeared in Hebrew and other Canaanite dialects.

   • 2018, Eran Cohen, The Modal System of Old Babylonian:

     Delimiting the forms which belong to the asseverative paradigm can be achieved only for some of the forms based on morphological criteria alone.

Derived terms

• asseveratively

 

Noun

asseverative (plural asseveratives)

1. (linguistics) A linguistic structure that serves to emphasize the certainty or truth of a statement.

Italian

Adjective

asseverative

1. feminine plural of asseverativo