Go (verb) (10029 bytes)
1: The [[verb]] '''go''' is highly irregular. Its [[principal p...
27: ...''windan''. This verb is the source of the modern verb, ''wind'', (whose preterit and past participle is...
37: ...pple. we need to look at the now obsolete English verb, ''gang''. Gang means "to walk" or "to go", and i...

Verb (5896 bytes)
1: ...soak", "stand"). Depending on the [[language]], a verb may vary in form according to many factors, possi...
5: ...lency''', or [[valence]]. According to valency, a verb can be classified as one of:
7: * '''Intransitive''' (valency = 1): the verb only has a subject. For example: "he runs", "it f...
8: ...sitive verb|'''Transitive''']] (valency = 2): the verb has a subject and a direct object. For example: "...
9: * '''Ditransitive''' (valency = 3): the verb has a subject, a direct object and an indirect or...

Will (verb) (3795 bytes)
1: The verb '''will''' in English has multiple meanings.
5: * as a modal [[auxiliary verb]]
8: As a modal verb, '''will''' expresses the following:
26: The past tense of ''will'' in the modal verb sense is '''would'''. ''Would'' is used in report...

Verb-Second (1905 bytes)
1: '''Verb-Second''' (or '''V2'''), in [[syntax]], is the ef...
3: ...tituent]] of declarative main clauses is always a verb,
6: The Verb-Second effect is clearly demonstrated
21: It may seem that the verb is in the third position in the last sentence,
36: The usual analysis of the Verb-Second phenomenon is

Defective verb (2683 bytes)
1: ...[grammatical conjugation|conjugation]]. Defective verbs cannot be conjugated in certain [[grammatical te...
8: ==Defective verbs in English==
10: ...ctive verbs are "ought" and the modal [[auxiliary verb]]s, including:
16: ...nally an auxiliary in that it functions as a full verb too: "it does not need to happen today")
18: These verbs lack several forms. Most notably, despite all ha...

Shanghai (verb) (2606 bytes)

Finite verb (1208 bytes)
1: ...categories of the languages it occurs in. Finite verbs can form independent [[clause]]s, which can stan...
3: .... In English, as in most related languages, only verbs in certain [[grammatical moods|moods]] are finit...
8: Moods and verb forms that are not finite include:

Phrasal verb (5064 bytes)
1: ...ed with a [[preposition]], an [[adverb]], or an adverbial [[particle]], all three of which are [[uninfle...
3: ... expressions are two-part verb or even three-part verb.
5: ==Idiomatic or literal verb-particle constructions?==
7: ...text, should be called ''verb and particle'' or ''verb-particle constructions''.
9: ...gurative/idiomatic'' use should be called phrasal verb, irrespectively whether they have an individual m...

Verb applicative (598 bytes)
1: ... the valency of a [[verb]] by adding a new core [[verb argument|argument]] to it. The new argument is a ...
8: ...]]) that allows multiple kinds of applicatives on verbs to specify different roles for the main argument...

Impersonal verb (1064 bytes)
1: ...of-being of any specific person, place, or thing. Verbs indicating weather, such as "to rain," are often...
3: ...h]] and [[French language|French]], an impersonal verb always takes the impersonal pronoun ("it" in Engl...
5: ...ch as [[Spanish language|Spanish]], an impersonal verb takes no subject at all, but is conjugated as tho...
7: .... For a more in-depth comparison, see [[defective verb]].

Verb argument (3438 bytes)
1: ...hrase]] that appears in a relationship with the [[verb]] in a [[proposition]]. Typical syntactic argumen...
3: ... object). The number of compulsory arguments of a verb is called its valency.
7: ...ion]], [[antipassive voice|antipassivization]], [[verb applicative|application]], [[Incorporation (lingu...
9: Every [[language]] marks the core arguments of verbs using [[case]], [[word order]] or a mixture of b...
11: ==Semantic verb arguments==

Table (verb) (1135 bytes)

Verb framing (1497 bytes)
1: ...t [[language]]s vary regarding whether the main [[verb]] tends to encode the ''manner'' of motion or the...
3: ...ing), or in a separate particle associated to the verb (a ''satellite'').
5: ...s English is a satellite-framed language. English verbs that counter this tendency are almost invariably...
7: ...h (along with all the [[Romance language]]s) is a verb-framed language.

Google (verb) (837 bytes)
3: ...ngine. The [[American Dialect Society]] chose the verb ''to google'' as the "most useful word of 2002".

Stative verb (1333 bytes)
1: ...other [[Grammatical aspect|aspectual]] classes of verbs in that they are static; they have no duration a...
3: Some [[English language|English]] stative verbs are 'know', 'have' and 'be'. Tests given by Davi...
18: ... formal [[semantics]], including Dowty's, stative verbs have a [[logic|logical]] form which is the [[Lam...
20: ...n influential work on aspectual classification of verbs.
22: ...tives in English are instead expressed by stative verbs.

Reflexive verb (647 bytes)
1: ...panish language|Spanish]], for example, reflexive verbs end in ''-se'' (the general word for ''oneself''...

Guess-the-verb (987 bytes)
1: ...kthrough]]. [[TADS]] games supply a fair list of verbs commonly used in their documentation; if the gam...

Deponent verb (2107 bytes)
1: A '''deponent verb''' is a [[verb]] that is [[active voice|active]] in meaning but ...
4: ...rm does not occur in [[Koine Greek]], because the verb is deponent in the future tense. The future form...
6: == Languages with deponent verbs ==

Germanic verb (4952 bytes)
1: ...o innovations over the previous [[Indo-European]] verb system:
6: ...at is, using auxiliary verbs, but the constituent verbs of even the most elaborate periphrastic construc...
8: ...). In addition, there is a class of reduplicating verbs, which shows clearly in Gothic, but in the later...
10: ==Vocalic verbs==
36: In addition, we find a class of reduplicating verbs, with or without vowel alteration:

Verb phrase (349 bytes)
1: ...head]] is a [[verb]]. A verb phrase consists of a verb, often one or two [[complement]]s, and any number...

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