Meaning of verb in English

Examples of verb

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The first is that the noun in this construction already has some of the semantics of an ordinary verb.
By contrast, ordinary adjectives without passive morphology were unlikely to be reanalyzed as verbs or to give rise to a verbal interpretation.
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Another useful verb, need, turns out to be both ordinary and modal.
Even if ' verb ' is taken here as a shorthand for ' argument-taker ', it may be thought that no harm is done, because prototypical argument-takers are verbs.
Pathbreaking verbs in syntactic development and the question of prototypical transitivity.
Or, adopting a distributed point of view, conceptual representations of verbs may share fewer meaning elements in a bilingual's memory than those of nouns.
The verb-and-particle ttwui-e "run" is revised and replaced with the verb-and-particle tul-e "enter".
This pattern was maintained at 4 years except that verb-alone responses were replaced with more pronoun-verb responses.
Regular past tense verbs show a distribution that is even more fascinating.
A telling example-of importance for the study reported below-involves (thematic) verb raising.
An important difference, then, between agreement verbs and plain verbs is in the role of the body.
In these instances, then, the entailments of sentences with spatial to phrases are determined by the meaning of their verbs.
The several chapters on verb meanings are not collected together, which means that related themes are not brought together.
The drop in recall for verbs and, even more, for adjectives is mostly due to the lack of structural information.
This suggests that production data may substantially underestimate early verb learning.
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Translations of verb

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動詞…
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动词…
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verbo, verbo [masculine, singular]…
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(文法)動詞…
fiil…
verbe [masculine], verbe…
verb…
فِعْل…
sloveso…
verbum, udsagnsord…
kata kerja, verba…
คำกริยา…
động từ…
czasownik…
kata kerja…
das Verb…
verb [neuter], verb…
동사…
verbo…
глагол…
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