verbformative
Verbformative is a linguistic term used to describe a morpheme, affix, or verbalizing process that creates a verb from a base belonging to another word class, such as a noun or an adjective, or from a different verbal form. The concept focuses on derivational mechanisms that shift word class and semantics, rather than on tense, aspect, or agreement inflection.
In English, common verb-formatives include suffixes such as -ize, -ify, -ate, and -en, which convert stems into
Typologically, verb-formatives vary across languages. Some languages rely heavily on suffixal derivation to produce verbs, while
Notes: The term is descriptive and may be used differently across grammars; some grammars prefer terms like