In linguistics, andative and venitive (abbreviated AND and VEN) are a type of verbal deixis: verb forms which indicate 'going' or 'coming' motion, respectively...

epithet). In the grammatical tradition of Latin and Greek, because adjectives were inflected for gender, number, and case like nouns (a process called declension)...

functors) are words that have little lexical meaning or have ambiguous meaning and express grammatical relationships among other words within a sentence, or...

morphological behavior in that they undergo inflection for similar properties and even similar semantic behavior. Commonly listed English parts of speech are...

core and a separable particle. In some sentence positions, the core verb and the particle appear in one word, whilst in others the core verb and the particle...

how sentence content is grounded in common knowledge between the speaker and participants. Languages that use many modal particles in their spoken form...

a type of word that shares features of verbs and prepositions. A coverb takes an object or complement and forms a phrase that appears in sequence with...

drunk (not "drinked"); hit (as past tense and past participle, not "hitted") and has and had (not "haves" and "haved"). The classification of verbs as...

it is a finite verb). The form without to is called the bare infinitive, and the form with to is called the full infinitive or to-infinitive. In many...

most common relative pronouns: which, who, whose, whom, whoever, whomever, and that, though some linguists analyze that in relative clauses as a conjunction...

process can be found in the case of several dozen verb-noun and verb-adjective pairs and is gradually becoming more standardized in some English dialects...

only a few flat adverbs, and some are widely thought of as incorrect. Despite bare adverbs being grammatically correct and widely used by respected authors...

'after' and 'while'. Other terms that have been used to refer to converbs include adverbial participle, conjunctive participle, gerund, gerundive and verbal...

intransitive verbs are typically considered within a class apart from modal verbs and defective verbs. In the following sentences, verbs are used without a direct...

adverbial or adnominal modifier, not as an argument of a verb. Both intensive and reflexive pronouns make reference to an antecedent. For example, compare...

interjection is a word or expression that occurs as an utterance on its own and expresses a spontaneous feeling, situation or reaction. It is a diverse category...

two arguments, a subject and a single direct object, are monotransitive. Verbs that entail two objects, a direct object and an indirect object, are ditransitive...

case, and formality. The term "personal" is used here purely to signify the grammatical sense; personal pronouns are not limited to people and can also...

categorized into five categories: copular, intransitive, transitive, ditransitive, and ambitransitive. The descriptor lexical is applied to the words of a language's...

transitively] and "you" is the initiator or is responsible for talking and resigning. But fall and die in the sentence "They fall and die" are unaccusative...

being mostly attested in certain comedies, by playwrights such as Terence and Plautus, which are written in a style more similar to Vulgar Latin. Terms...

the Semitic languages, some Nilotic languages and the Athabaskan languages. Many adjectives in Chinese and Japanese also behave like this. In the Akkadian...

form of a verb. There are two supines, I (first) and II (second). They are originally the accusative and dative or ablative forms of a verbal noun in the...

is non-compositional and thus unpredictable. Phrasal verbs are differentiated from other classifications of multi-word verbs and free combinations by...

intransitive and transitive.: 4  This verb may or may not require a direct object. English has many ambitransitive verbs. Examples include read, break, and understand...

languages, such as German and English, Celtic languages, such as Welsh and Irish, and Volta-Niger languages, such as Ewe and Esan. Other common languages...

many collective words and various languages have common affixes for denoting collective nouns. Because derivation is a slower and less productive word...

some grammarians still use when referring to gerunds, gerundives, supines, and nominal forms of infinitives. In English however, verbal noun has most frequently...

interrogative pro-form is a pro-form that denotes the (unknown) item in question and may itself fall into any of the above categories. The rules governing allowable...

have a defined endpoint, and may or may not yet have occurred. These distinctions lead to various forms related to tense and aspect. For example, a dynamic...