An anticausative verb (abbreviated ANTIC) is an intransitive verb that shows an event affecting its subject, while giving no semantic or syntactic indication...
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Causative: agent Verb-transitive theme (2b) Anticausative: theme Verb-intransitive The causative alternation is a transitivity alternation. The verb “break” demonstrates...
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this type have also been called unaccusative verbs, middle voice, anticausative verbs in the literature, but these terms usually have other meanings in...
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Rezo grew up. Active-stative alignment Anticausative verb – type of unaccusative Copula Deponent verb Ergative verb – transitive equivalent of unaccusative...
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Arabic verbs (فِعْل fiʿl; pl. أَفْعَال afʿāl), like the verbs in other Semitic languages, and the entire vocabulary in those languages, are based on a...
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Copula (linguistics) (redirect from Be (verb))
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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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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Voice (grammar) (redirect from Voice of the verb)
the morphology whether the verb in Sentence (8) is an active voice unaccusative verb or a middle voice anticausative verb with active morphology. Since...
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a change of state as a patient": "Anticausative" reflexive denotes that the (usually inanimate) subject of the verb undergoes an action or change of state...
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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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been termed an anticausative. Other alternating intransitive verbs in English are change and sink. In the Romance languages, these verbs are often called...
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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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negative particles and negative affixes, negative verbs play a role in various languages. The negative verb is used to implement a clausal negation. The negative...
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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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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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inchoative/anticausative verbs (intransitive), or causative verbs (transitive) is what selects the theta role conjoined with a particular verb. Kenneth...
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regular verb is any verb whose conjugation follows the typical pattern, or one of the typical patterns, of the language to which it belongs. A verb whose...
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Infinitive (redirect from Verb infinitive)
INF) is a linguistics term for certain verb forms existing in many languages, most often used as non-finite verbs that do not show a tense. As with many...
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In linguistics, a stative verb is a verb that describes a state of being, in contrast to a dynamic verb, which describes an action. The difference can...
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A modal verb is a type of verb that contextually indicates a modality such as a likelihood, ability, permission, request, capacity, suggestion, order,...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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participle plus an intransitive copula-like verb (e.g. English I am known); a prominence of anticausative verbs in inchoative-causative pairs (e.g., expansion...
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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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