In general linguistics, a labile verb (or ergative / diffused / ambivalent verb) is a verb that undergoes causative alternation; that is, it can be used...

verbs.: 19  Such verbs are also called labile verbs (or "ergative verbs"). Confusingly, verbs of this type have also been called unaccusative verbs,...

Anticausative verb – type of unaccusative Copula Deponent verb Ergative verb – transitive equivalent of unaccusative Impersonal passive voice Labile verb Reflexive...

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...

A modal verb is a type of verb that contextually indicates a modality such as a likelihood, ability, permission, request, capacity, suggestion, order,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

motivated the existence of a class of intransitive verbs named labile verbs. This class of verbs, also known as alternating unaccusatives or alternating...

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...

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...

(linguistics) Differential argument marking Differential object marking Labile verb Milewski's typology Dixon, R. M. W. (1994). Ergativity. Cambridge University...

extensive use of particles. Ambitransitive verb Case Diathesis alternation Ergative-absolutive language Labile verb Morphosyntactic alignment Nominative-absolutive...

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...

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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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...

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...

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...

verb, vector verb, explicator verb, thin verb, empty verb and semantically weak verb. While light verbs are similar to auxiliary verbs regarding their...

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...

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...

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...

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...

An unergative verb is an intransitive verb that is characterized semantically by having a subject argument which is an agent that actively initiates the...

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...

a gerund (/ˈdʒɛrənd, -ʌnd/ abbreviated ger) is any of various nonfinite verb forms in various languages; most often, but not exclusively, it is one that...

Non-finite verbs, are verb forms that do not show tense, person, or number. They include: Infinitives (e.g., to go, to see) - They often function as nouns...

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...