If that sounds strange to you, then, apparently, in your mental lexicon " prefer " is a stative verb.
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Proto-Oceanic stative verb prefix " * ma-", though only one has a non-stative equivalent remaining.
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The most common pattern involves a negative predicate in the form of an impersonal and intransitive stative verb, which occurs in sentence initial position.
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In addition, it appears that in PIE itself, stative verbs did not have the optative mood; it was limited to eventive verbs.
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Yet, aspect-wise, it was an imperfective root, and thus formed an imperfective root verb, rather than a stative verb.
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English is an Indo-european language, and pre-Indo-European distinguished between active and stative verbs and animate and inanimate nouns.
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In addition, adjectival roots can be turned into stative verbs : " La ielo bluas . " " The sky is blue ."
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For example, nominal classifiers; many languages lack a distinction between adjectives and adverbs, or between adjectives and verbs ( see stative verb ).
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Another less seldom pattern, is when the second element is a stative verb or an adjective : V 2 indicates the manner of V 1.
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:: There is a " rule " that stative verbs verbs denoting a state rather than an action cannot take the progressive tense.
