This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The conservative Fehan dialect of Tetun, a Central Malayo-Polynesian language spoken on Timor, has two verbs that have developed into ...

Find out more about verb suffixes and how they can extend your vocabulary as well as help you remember meanings of new words. A suffix is a letter or a group of letters that are added to the end of a ...

Two-year-olds use the sentence structures verbs appear in—subcategorization frames—to guide verb learning. This is syntactic bootstrapping. This study probed the developmental origins of this ability.

In these examples, down and back are not prepositions but function as adverbs to extend or change the meaning of the verb. This combination of verb and adverb is always known as a phrasal verb. Note ...

Great news, everyone! The Oxford English Dictionary has finally — finally — added a verb form to its definition of “clatfart.” That’s right. The noun we all love, meaning “gossip,” is now also a verb ...

Enter or enter into — A few days ago, a reader said that President Pranab Mukherjee, while addressing the gathering at the Diamond Jubilee Celebrations of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly has used ...