The first is that the noun in this construction already has some of the semantics of an ordinary verb.
By contrast, ordinary adjectives without passive morphology were unlikely to be reanalyzed as verbs or to give rise to a verbal interpretation.
Another useful verb, need, turns out to be both ordinary and modal.
Even if ' verb ' is taken here as a shorthand for ' argument-taker ', it may be thought that no harm is done, because prototypical argument-takers are verbs.
Pathbreaking verbs in syntactic development and the question of prototypical transitivity.
Or, adopting a distributed point of view, conceptual representations of verbs may share fewer meaning elements in a bilingual's memory than those of nouns.
The verb-and-particle ttwui-e "run" is revised and replaced with the verb-and-particle tul-e "enter".
This pattern was maintained at 4 years except that verb-alone responses were replaced with more pronoun-verb responses.
