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	Verbs and Verbals
		Verbs that are intransitive do not require objects: "The building collapsed." In English, you cannot tell the difference between a transitive and intransitive verb by its form; you have to see how the verb is functioning within the sentence.
		Verbs can be combined with different prepositions and other words, sometimes with dizzying effect: stand out, stand up, stand in, stand off, stand by, stand fast, stand pat, stand down, stand against, stand for.
		These verb tenses don't have to be identical as long as they reflect, logically, shifts in time and meaning: "My brother had graduated before I started college." "My brother will have graduated before I start." Click HERE for a chart describing various time relationships and how those relationships determine the appropriate sequence of verb tenses.
	grammar.ccc.commnet.edu /grammar/verbs.htm (3203 words)

	Verb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A verb is a part of speech that usually denotes action ("bring", "read"), occurrence ("decompose", "glitter"), or a state of being ("exist", "stand").
		A similar type of verb, the weather verb, exists in English, but its non-pro-drop nature requires that a dummy pronoun be used.
		A copula is a word that is used to describe its subject, or to equate or liken the subject with its predicate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Verb (750 words)

	Transitive verb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In grammar, a transitive verb is a verb that requires both a subject and one or more objects.
		Verbs that don't require an object are called intransitive, for example the verb to sleep.
		Verbs that can be used in a transitive or intransitive way are called ambitransitive; an example is the verb eat, since the sentences I am eating (with an intransitive form) and I am eating an apple (with a transitive form that has an apple as the object) are both grammatical.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Transitive_verb (195 words)

	Encyclopedia: Ditransitive verb
		In grammar, a ditransitive verb is a verb which takes a subject and two objects.
		In languages which mark grammatical case, it is common to differentiate the objects of a ditransitive verb using, for example, the accusative case for the direct object, and the dative case for the indirect object (but this morphological alignment is not unique; see below).
		In many languages, the patient of a ditransitive verb is marked in the same way as the single object of a monotransitive verb, and is called the direct object.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ditransitive-verb (453 words)

	Ditransitive verb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In certain dialects of English, many verbs not normally treated as ditransitive are allowed to take a third argument that shows a beneficiary, generally of an action performed for oneself.
		There is a different kind of ditransitive verbs, where the two objects are semantically an entity and a quality, a source and a result, etc. These verbs attribute one object to the other.
		Just as the way the arguments of intransitive and transitive verbs are aligned in a given language allows one sort of typological classification, the alignment between arguments of monotransitive and ditransitive verbs allows another kind of classification.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ditransitive_verb (552 words)

	Encyclopedia article: Ditransitive verb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In grammar (Studies of the formation of basic linguistic units), a ditransitive verb is a verb (A word that serves as the predicate of a sentence) which takes a subject (The subject matter of a conversation or discussion) and two objects.
		Many ditransitive verbs have a passive voice (The voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb) form which can take a direct object.
		See also transitive verb (A verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical) and intransitive verb (A verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/di/ditransitive_verb.htm (272 words)

	Verb - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A verb is a part of speech that usually denotes action ("bring", "read"), occurrence ("to decompose" (itself), "to glitter"), or a state of being ("exist", "live", "soak", "stand").
		A few of these appear in Spanish and other languages and may be termed "impersonal verbs".
		Such verbs don't exist in English because in this language every verb must have a subject, even if it is a dummy one like "it".
	open-encyclopedia.com /Verb (722 words)

	Literary Stylistics Notes no. 2: Nouns, Verbs & Other Simple Considerations, by Ismail Talib
		Auxiliary verbs, unlike lexical verbs, are sometimes described as a closed category, as their total number is limited, and has not changed very much in the recent history of the language.
		The progressive aspect is indicated by the auxiliary verb 'to be', followed by the lexical verb, which is in the form of what is called the '-ing participle' in the grammar of English, to specify that an action is (or was) still going on at a particular point of time.
		One way to check whether we are dealing with a phrasal verb or a verb followed by a preposition, is to see whether the preposition or particle that follows the verb initiates a prepositional phrase by placing the phrase which the preposition is supposed to initiate elsewhere.
	courses.nus.edu.sg /course/ellibst/lsl02.html (2846 words)

	HF ENG 111 Grammar: Lecture 8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The present tense form of a main verb differs from the base form only when the verb is marked for agreement with a subject in the third person singular: she walks, she sings, she goes.
		It is the main verb in the verb phrase functioning as V in the clause that determines what other clause elements have to be present in the clause.
		Catenative verbs were described in lecture 3 as 'lexical verbs which are used as if they were auxiliaries': all their formal properties are typical of lexical verbs, but their meaning has some resemblance to that of certain auxiliaries.
	www.hf.ntnu.no /engelsk/staff/johannesson/111gram/9900l08.htm (3028 words)

	Object (grammar)
		In linguistics, the object of a transitive verb is one of its core argumentss, which generally represents the target of the verb's action.
		Modern English preserves a case distinction for pronouns, but it has conflated the accusative and the dative into a single objective form ("him", "her", "me", etc. may function either as direct or indirect objects).
		In some languages, the recipient of a ditransitive verb is marked in the same way as the single object of a monotransitive verb, and is called the primary object.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/o/ob/object__grammar_.html (392 words)

	Definitions of Basic Sentence Parts: Verbs and Verbals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The problem with phrasal verbs is that their meaning is often, at first, obscure, and they often mean several different things.
		Verbs can be combined with different prepositions and other words, sometimes with dizzying effect: stand out, stand up, stand in, stand off, stand by, stand fast, stand pat, stand down, stand against, stand for.
		Most verbs in English form their various tenses consistently: add -ed to the base of a verb to create the simple past and past participle: he walked; he has walked.
	www.vnn.vn /vnn4/practice/grammar/verbs.htm (2572 words)

	When A Mockingbird Needs to be Killed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Goldberg's contention on the ditransitive construction is that if a verb denotes a successful transfer and a "cause to receive" then it will fit into the double object form, and if the verb's meaning allows "cause to move" then it works in the oblique-to/for form.
		Give-type verbs fit into both because "the skeletal meaning of give is flexible enough to fit in with both construals, give alone coding a sense involving three arguments, while the combination of give-to codes the motional sense" (329).
		Envy-type verbs are verbs of not getting or receiving thus they are almost in complete competition with the semantic and syntactic frames Goldberg uses in her analysis.
	simla.colostate.edu /~vaadams/pages/515.htm (2562 words)

	On Processing German Verb-Final Constructions:
		The verbs were matched for lexical token frequency, and the respective argument structure preferences were confirmed by a sentence completion study run on a different sample of participants than the other experiments.
		This suggests that when the parser is generating expectations about the verb’s sub-category during on-line sentence proces-sing, it predicts a minimum number of argument-slots of the potential verb (justifying the number of arguments already available), but leaves the maximum number of potential arguments under-specified.
		Secondly, it may be the case that the two sets of verbs differed with respect to the strength of their respective lexical preferences.
	www.jcss.gr.jp /iccs99OLP/o2-01/o2-01.htm (1803 words)

	Real French.net \| Glossary
		When using a verb with a subject, the verb must be given a particular ending corresponding to the subject’s person, number, gender and tense.
		Nonfinite verbs are verbs such as infinitives or participles which are not conjugated, but which may in the case of participles require an agreement.
		This is where the verb in a subordinate clause has to be in a given tense because of the tense of the verb in the main clause.
	www.realfrench.net /grammar/glossary_print.php (3876 words)

	Verb Types (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In the case of transitive verbs the complement is in fact more accurately called a "direct object", this is to distinguish it from an "indirect object", later on we will talk about verbs which need this other type of object, but don't worry about it now.
		There are two ways of looking at ditransitive and complex transitive verbs, you can simply assume that complex transitive verbs are just a type of ditransitive verb or you can decide that they are another separate type in themselves.
		For this reason these verbs are believed by many people to be a completely different type of verb "complex transitive" I don't like this division but it is fairly widely accepted (not to say there isn't some argument about it).
	www.trewornan.clara.net /Verbs.htm (1684 words)

	Revalency
		For valency reduction in the NA and AE systems, the valency-reduction suffix is attached to a transitive verb, the argument with default case is dropped, the other argument changes to default case, and the dropped argument may be restored at the end of the sentence as an oblique.
		We can now form a number of permuted sentences with a ditransitive verb, keeping in mind that if the second argument of a ditransitive verb is marked revalent, that means that whatever argument was going to occur there has been skipped over.
		If the verb meant something like 'to speak', the stem of the derived nouns was erga, and it all happened at an intermediate stage of the language where the revalent suffix hadn't yet lost its final vowel, ergane would be the valent plural (speakers), ergato the revalent singular (that which is spoken).
	web.cs.wpi.edu /~jshutt/revalency.html (3303 words)

	Intransitive verb - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		An intransitive verb is a verb that has only one argument, that is, a verb with valency equal to one.
		(See morphosyntactic alignment.) In active languages, intransitive verbs are classified in two subtypes: the ones where the subject is typically the agent (performer) of the action (as in eat, run, cook), and the ones where the subject is typically the patient (undergoer) of the action (as in fall, die, and maybe sneeze and hiccup).
		English is rather flexible with regards to verb valency, and so it has a high number of ambitransitive verbs; other languages are more rigid and require explicit valency changing operations (voice, causative morphology, etc.) to transform a verb from intransitive to transitive or vice versa.
	www.grohol.com /psypsych/Intransitive (947 words)

	Talk:Ditransitive verb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Anyway, we need to talk about ditransitive verbs in other languages too, not just English.
		Most of the recent threads have dealt with linguistic theory esp. re: case systems, including monotransitive/ditransitive alignment -- which is, I think, where I recently saw some references to papers about this.
		That is, how do various languages align one of the arguments of a ditransitive verb with the patient argument of a monotransitive verb.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Ditransitive_verb (413 words)

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		From that moment on we were able to use the new verb 'fax' in all the sentences we would normally use some word like 'send' or 'mail', for instance, "She forgot she was supposed to fax the results to our group".
		The verbs that occur with the very high frequency in maternal speech are very general, semantically very simple and wide-applicable; and in general can be seen as kinds of pro- forms for the other verbs, just like 'big' and 'little' relate to the other size-adjectives.
		This process is equivalent to the gradual consolidation of an abstract grammatical relation such as the verb-object relation, as well as to the consolidation of a similarity-class of verbs to which the relevant principle applies, namely, a lexical form-class which is relative to, and specific to, the syntactic rule applying to its members.
	www.cs.huji.ac.il /~ninio/anat/Learning_from_examples.txt (3291 words)

	verb - Simple English Wiktionary
		verb is a kind of word that usually tells about an action or a state and is the main part of a sentence.
		In English, verbs are the only kind of word that changes to show past or present tense.
		In the sentence, "My father works on a farm," the verb is works.
	simple.wiktionary.org /wiki/verb (121 words)

	Verb [encyclopedia] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Verbs generally come in a bewildering array of tenses and aspects.
		These include intransitive; transitive; ditransitive; and ergative, all of which types are marked in some of the world's languages.
		The more complex tenses in English are formed by combining a particular tense of the verb with certain verbal auxiliaries, the most common of which are "to", various forms of "be", various forms of "have", and the conditional auxiliaries "may" and "might":
	artzia.com /Society/Language/Grammar/Verb.shtml (474 words)

	[Creolica] Articles publiés
		By ditransitive constructions we mean constructions with verbs of transfer like 'give', 'send', 'show' which require two objects, a Recipient (or receiver) and a Theme (or patient), i.e.
		Before we show examples with ditransitive constructions, we should mention the fact that in spontaneous texts – and this is not only the case in creoles – one has to look hard to find constructions with two overtly expressed objects.
		For instance, in the Algonquian language Ojibwa, the Recipient 'John' agrees with the verb in the same way in which the monotransitive Patient agrees with the verb, whereas the Theme is not indexed on the verb.
	www.creolica.net /article.php3?id_article=28 (3830 words)

	Taba as a split-O language
		Transitive verbs include the sorts of verbs which generally show a high degree of transitivity cross-linguistically such as 'hit' and 'kill' etc. Taba also has a class of what might be called 'semi-transitive' verbs, which optionally allow an argument to be marked adpositionally.
		When the sole argument of an intransitive verb refers to a human the resultant pattern is an accusative one: S patterns with A no matter what the actual semantic role of the human referring single argument of the intransitive.
		In ditransitive derivation, the -Vk suffix derives verbs with extra arguments having a variety of semantic roles, depending on the meaning of the transitive stem to which they are attached: instrument, recipient, or theme.
	rspas.anu.edu.au /linguistics/projects/WP/Bowden2.html (11341 words)

	Conference Materials (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		(Ditransitive verbs such as ``give'' and ``introduce'' were used.
		In Experiment I, in order to increase the overall memory load (Just and Carpenter, 1992; Gibson, 1998), the ditransitive clauses in (1a,b) were embedded within two clauses and intermixed with complex fillers requiring careful reading.
		Reading times at the object prior to the verb are crucial because that is where a trace may be posited.
	cognet.mit.edu /library/conferences/paper?paper_id=45115 (528 words)

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