Verb (Linguistics)
Verb (Linguistics)
A verb is a member of the syntactic class of words that
- typically signal events and actions
- constitute, singly or in a phrase, a minimal predicate in a clause
- govern the number and types of other constituents which may occur in the clause, and
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in inflectional languages, may be inflected for
- tense
- aspect
- voice
- modality, or
-
agreement with other constituents in
- person
- number, or
- grammatical gender.
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Broader Terms
- BT↑ Lexical Category
- BT↑ Word
More specific terms
- NT2 ↓ Auxiliary Verb
- NT2 ↓ Conjunctive Verb
- NT2 ↓ Copula
- NT2 ↓ Defective Verb
- NT2 ↓ Finite Verb
- NT2 ↓ Impersonal Verb
- NT2 ↓ Irregular Verb
- NT2 ↓ Lexical Verb
- NT2 ↓ Nonfinite Verb ►
- NT2 ↓ Reflexive Verb
Related terms
- RT⇆ Adverb (Grammar)
- RT⇆ Adverb (Linguistics)
- RT⇆ Agent As A Semantic Role
- RT⇆ Anthimeria
- RT⇆ Aspect
- RT⇆ Causative
- RT⇆ Causer As A Semantic Role
- RT⇆ Closed Class
- RT⇆ Compound Predicate
- RT⇆ Continuous Aspect
- RT⇆ Dative As A Semantic Role
- RT⇆ Different Subject Marker
- RT⇆ Ergative Case
- RT⇆ Factitive As A Semantic Role
- RT⇆ Final Clause
- RT⇆ Fixed Lexical Collocation
- RT⇆ Grammatical Relation
- RT⇆ Head
- RT⇆ Illocutionary Verb
- RT⇆ Imperative Mood
- RT⇆ Inflection
- RT⇆ Intransitivity
- RT⇆ Medial Clause
- RT⇆ Mediopassive Voice
- RT⇆ Nominalization
- RT⇆ Noun Class
- RT⇆ Number
- RT⇆ Oblique Object
- RT⇆ Open Class
- RT⇆ Participle
- RT⇆ Passive Voice
- RT⇆ Performative Verb
- RT⇆ Perlocutionary Verb
- RT⇆ Person Deixis
- RT⇆ Phrasal Verb
- RT⇆ Predicate
- RT⇆ Predicator
- RT⇆ Presupposition Trigger
- RT⇆ Pro-Verb
- RT⇆ Prohibitive Mood
- RT⇆ Semantic Role
- RT⇆ Separable Affix
- RT⇆ Serial Verb Construction
- RT⇆ Stative Verb
- RT⇆ Tense
- RT⇆ Transitive Verb
- RT⇆ Transitivity
- RT⇆ Verb Phrase
- RT⇆ Verbal Adjective
- RT⇆ Verbal Noun
- RT⇆ Yes-No Question
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