单词 | verbid |
释义 | verbidn. Grammar. Somewhat rare. A word, such as an infinitive, gerund, or participle, which has some characteristics of a verb but cannot form the head of a predicate on its own. Also: (with reference to certain West African languages) a bound verb with in a serial verb construction. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > verb > [noun] > other specific types of verb vocative verbc1414 activec1450 passivec1450 substantive verba1475 neuter1530 gesture1612 nominal1666 quiescent1720 reduplicative1756 dative verb1844 factitive1845 preterite-present1859 compound verb1863 pro-verb1868 preterito-presentia1870 preteritive present1872 action verb1877 verbid1914 inversive1931 eventive1946 hypothetical1957 non-factive1970 commonization1973 contrafactive1985 1914 O. Jespersen Mod. Eng. Gram. II. 7 We shall..restrict the name of verb to those forms that have the eminently verbal power of forming sentences, and..apply the name of verbid to participles and infinitives. 1952 Eng. Jrnl. 41 557/1 The alleged misrelation is of course the failure of the verbid to refer directly to the element it modifies. 1966 G. Ansre in Jrnl. W. Afr. Langs. 3 29 (title) The verbid—a caveat to serial verbs. 1981 College Composition & Communication 32 180 The verbid from the verb phrase was..likely to be compounded. 2004 E. O. Aboh Morphosyntax of Complement-head Sequences 118 Though so-called verbids were considered close to verbs, it was admitted that they constitute a different lexical class. Compounds General attributive. ΚΠ 1933 J. R. Aiken New Plan Eng. Gram. v. 33 The verbid clause performs the same functions as the subordinate clause. 1966 R. L. Allen Verb Syst. Present-day Amer. Eng. 136 Of the 4800 verb and verbid-clusters included in the corpus, 1191..are clusters with some form of BE as the verb. 1997 M. Machavariani in K. Simms Lang. & Subj. i. 51 A great number of examples of verbid declension are puzzling, and do not fit this description. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1914 |
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