Below is a guest post by Matt Rips (and Google Gemini). In a discussion of linguistic matters, an LLM began using a word, an adjective, repeatedly, to describe a concept. The word does not exist. There were multiple instances, such as: One possible explanation for the tendency of quantified plural event nominals to resist direct actorive eventuality recovery is that many such nominals encode inherently multi-party relational events. This word does not show up in OED, Google, etc. It is not an English word. Google AI suggests: “if you are studying historical texts or phonetics, you might find it useful to know that "actorive" is an archaic or reconstructed variant that sometimes appears in early phonetic research or mistranscribed Latin." Prompt: Is actorive a real word? Response: No — not really, at least not as an established mainstream linguistic term. It is understandable and morphologically well-formed, and a reader would probably infer: “having to do with actors/agency/agent…
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