emphatic state

English

Noun

emphatic state (countable and uncountable, plural emphatic states)

1. (grammar) A noun and attributive adjective form, occurring in Aramaic and Old South Arabian and by minority reconstructed for Proto-Semitic, where the word spearheads what is perceived as an agglutinated determiner.

Synonyms

• status emphaticus

Coordinate terms

• determinate state
• construct state
• indeterminate state
• absolute state