addressivities
addressivities is the plural of addressivity.
Meaning of addressivity
Noun
addressivity (plural addressivities)
- The quality of being addressive, of engaging in communication for the sake of one's interlocutor
- Evidently, in certain languages some of these meanings may be expressed by special affixes (without a causative meaning), as, for example, the meanings of commitativity (cf. 6.3), addressivity (cf. 6.5) and mutuality (cf. 6.6) in Kabardian.1970, V.P. Nedyalkov, “On the Typology of the Polysemy of Verbal Affixes”, in Theoretical Problems of Typology and the Northern Eurasian Languages, →ISBN, page 97
Questions about addressivities
- What is addressivities the plural of?
- Addressivities is the plural of addressivity.
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