- linguistics, an
impersonal verb is one that has no
determinate subject. For example, in the
sentence "It rains", rain is an
impersonal verb and the pronoun...
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defective verb is the
archaic quoth, a past
tense which is the only
surviving form of the
verb quethe, "to say" (related to bequeath).
Impersonal verbs such...
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transitive verbs are the most common, but the
impersonal and
objective verbs are
somewhat different from the norm. In the objective, the
verb takes an object...
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nevertheless syntactically required. This is
commonly the case if the
verb is an
impersonal verb, but it
could also be that the
argument is unknown, irrelevant...
- The
impersonal p****ive
voice is a
verb voice that
decreases the
valency of an
intransitive verb (which has
valency one) to zero.: 77 The
impersonal p****ive...
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ordinary verb expressing having and possession.
Haber can be used as an
impersonal verb expressing existence ("there is/are"). When used
impersonally, haber...
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verbs only take an
indefinite pronoun het (it) as
subject Absolute verbs are
similar to unergatives, but they lack an
impersonal p****ive form
Verbs can...
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forms where it is
pronounced short. When an
infinitive is used with an
impersonal verb, the
personal suffixes may be
added to the
infinitive to
indicate the...
- An
unergative verb is an
intransitive verb that is
characterized semantically by
having a
subject argument which is an
agent that
actively initiates the...
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verbs is
Allerton (1982), who made the
important distinction between semantic and
syntactic valency.
There are
several types of valency:
impersonal (= avalent)...
