inducive
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]inducive (not comparable)
- (rare) Tending to induce, inducing something, or relating to the inducing of something.
Noun
[edit]inducive (uncountable)
- (linguistics) IND A case indicating the patient who undergoes the tangible effect, impact, or change of state of an act/event initiated/caused by that self-same party. Examples: The boys run in the playground, We talked for hours, The couple eats dinner.
- 2023, John Quijada, Grammar of The New Ithkuil[1]:
- The nine transrelative cases are the thematic, instrumental, absolutive, affective, stimulative, effectuative, ergative, dative, and inducive. Following are explanations of the function and usage of each case. Examples of these cases in use are provided in Sec. 4.2.10 below.