• Look up denominal verb in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In grammar, denominal verbs are verbs derived from nouns. Many languages have regular morphological...
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    organized by a club is known as a Hash or Run, or a Hash Run. A common denominal verb for this activity is Hashing, with participants calling themselves Hashers...
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  • An auxiliary verb (abbreviated aux) is a verb that adds functional or grammatical meaning to the clause in which it occurs, so as to express tense, aspect...
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  • Root (linguistics) (redirect from Root verb)
    "Locality Constraints on the Interpretation of Roots: The Case of Hebrew Denominal Verbs". Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. 21 (4): 737–778. doi:10...
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  • a verb: "The little old lady turtled along the road." In linguistics, this is called conversion; when a noun becomes a verb, it is a denominal verb, when...
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  • A modal verb is a type of verb that contextually indicates a modality such as a likelihood, ability, permission, request,suggestion, order, obligation...
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  • often a verb or a verb-like word, though this is not universally the case. A verb that is a copula is sometimes called a copulative or copular verb. In English...
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  • In grammar, an intransitive verb is a verb, aside from an auxiliary verb, whose context does not entail a transitive object. That lack of an object distinguishes...
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    traditional grammar of Modern English, a phrasal verb typically constitutes a single semantic unit consisting of a verb followed by a particle (e.g., turn down...
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  • Germanic languages, a strong verb is a verb that marks its past tense by means of changes to the stem vowel. A minority of verbs in any Germanic language...
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  • Secondary verbs were formed either from primary verb roots (so-called deverbal verbs) or from nouns (denominal verbs or denominative verbs) or adjectives...
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  • reflexive verb is, loosely, a verb whose direct object is the same as its subject, for example, "I wash myself". More generally, a reflexive verb has the...
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  • some linguistics theories, a stative verb is a verb that describes a state of being, in contrast to a dynamic verb, which describes an action. The difference...
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    Yakut language (category Subject–object–verb languages)
    future/remote imperative ("do later!").[1] Common Turkic has denominal suffix -LA, used to create verbs from nouns (i.e. Uzbek tishla= 'to bite' from tish 'tooth')...
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  • linguistics a lexical verb or main verb is a member of an open class of verbs that includes all verbs except auxiliary verbs. Lexical verbs typically express...
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    question then becomes whether to analyse such verb formations as incorporation or as denominal derivation of verbs. Greenlandic has a number of morphemes that...
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  • linguistics, an impersonal verb is one that has no determinate subject. For example, in the sentence "It rains", rain is an impersonal verb and the pronoun it...
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  • An attributive verb is a verb that modifies (expresses an attribute of) a noun in the manner of an attributive adjective, rather than express an independent...
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  • deponent verb is a verb that is active in meaning but takes its form from a different voice, most commonly the middle or passive. A deponent verb has no...
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  • An unergative verb is an intransitive verb that is characterized semantically by having a subject argument which is an agent that actively initiates the...
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  • A predicative verb is a verb that behaves as a grammatical adjective; that is, it predicates (qualifies or informs about the properties of its argument)...
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  • A separable verb is a verb that is composed of a lexical core and a separable particle. In some sentence positions, the core verb and the particle appear...
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  • transitive verb is a verb that entails one or more transitive objects, for example, 'enjoys' in Amadeus enjoys music. This contrasts with intransitive verbs, which...
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  • In grammar, a ditransitive (or bitransitive) verb is a transitive verb whose contextual use corresponds to a subject and two objects which refer to a...
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  • Germanic languages, weak verbs are by far the largest group of verbs, and are therefore often regarded as the norm (the regular verbs). They are distinguished...
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    ha-mazan- "warriors", a word attested indirectly through a derivation, a denominal verb in Hesychius of Alexandria's gloss "ἁμαζακάραν· πολεμεῖν. Πέρσαι" ("hamazakaran:...
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  • In linguistics, a defective verb is a verb that either lacks a conjugated form or entails incomplete conjugation, and thus cannot be conjugated for certain...
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  • Suppletion (redirect from Suppletive verb)
    unrelated stems. Collateral adjective—denominal adjectives based on a suppletive root, such as arm ~ brachial Irregular verb "suppletion". Oxford English Dictionary...
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    compound verb or complex predicate is a multi-word compound that functions as a single verb. One component of the compound is a light verb or vector...
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