Are stative verbs always inchoative when used with an imperative?

Wikipedia says that stative verbs are always inchoative when used as imperatives. However, negative imperatives are used to exhibit prohibition in "including the giving of prohibition," and saying "Believing that is prohibited" does not seem to have the inchoative aspect. So in a sentence like "don't think badly of this" does it have the inchoative aspect?


Solution 1:

To comply with the use of a stative verb one must either start, stop or continue (not in the sense of resume) one's current state. As inchoative refers only to a start, I consider Wikipedia to be inaccurate in this respect.

An example:

See the screen! One way you can be complying is if you've continued the state (seeing the screen) that you were in when you read that (presuming that someone didn't read it to you). So a stative verb is clearly not always inchoative when used as an imperative.

"Don't think badly of this!" would only imply a start (thinking well or having no opinion either way) if the listener was already thinking badly of it, so the answer to your question is "No."