From 100 per cent to the ancient origins of the “parting shot”, these are linguistic quirks that keep readers up at night.

Abstract: Most of the previous studies on the user preferences assume that there is a personal transitive preference ranking of the consumable media like images. For example, the transitivity of ...

Abstract: It is known that brain dynamics significantly changes during motor imagery tasks of upper limb involving different kind of interactions with an object. Nevertheless, an automatic ...

A teary Dembélé finishes his speech to the adoring crowd There is not a dry eye in the house as the winger continues to thank his family, friends, and teammates. He has just invited his mother onto ...

WHEN we were children and just beginning to learn English grammar, many of us were taken aback by the strange failure of some verbs to work in certain sentence constructions. For instance, perhaps ...

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Focuses on understanding verbs, explaining their two main categories: action verbs and state of being verbs. It distinguishes between transitive and intransitive verbs based on whether they have a ...

Nama, a Papuan language spoken in southern New Guinea, indexes the person and number of the A argument of a transitive verb with a suffix, and the P argument with a prefix. For a large subset of ...

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AS we should all know by now, intransitive verbs are handicapped by their inability to take a direct object. Another way of saying this is that a subject cannot perform the action of intransitive ...

The earliest known description of a case of apraxia is attributed to Hughlings Jackson (1861) 1, although he did not give a specific name to the disorder. The term “apraxia”, from the Greek apraksía ...