On a postcard I got recently, a reproduction of this drawing by Saul Steinberg (used as a New Yorker cover in 1971): The prototypical activity verb do (with agentive subjects) and two stative verbs (with non-agentive subjects), relational have and predicating be, with their (usual) semantics represented in visual images. I’ll say a bit more … Continue reading Saul Steinberg on activity and stativity