41. There have been a few analyses proposed to explain Wayana s person marking, including active-stative . 42. In some cases, its only function is to make a sentence predicated with a stative verb more polite. 43. One set of morphemes indicates the transitive action verbs " or " the subject of stative verbs. 44. Active languages are termed also " active stative " or even " nominative absolutive ". 45. A dozen or so primary statives survived, in the form of the " preterite-present verbs ". 46. States and qualities are generally expressed using stative verbs that do not require the verb " to be ". 47. A word class that refers to properties or states has been described either as adjectives or as stative verbs. 48. In addition to verbs denoting actions, Apma has a large number of stative verbs that describe an item. 49. Additionally, verbs may be categorized into two main subtypes, stative and functive, according to syntactic criteria. 50. A class of words that describe properties or states has been described either as adjectives or as stative verbs.