Professor emeritus of Onomastics Richard Coates Richard.Coates@uwe.ac.uk
Professor emeritus of Onomastics
On the possibility of proper verbs
Coates, Richard
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Abstract
© 2016 by De Gruyter Mouton. The quality of being proper is always presumed, for perfectly understandable reasons to do with its function in acts of reference, to be restricted to nouns or noun phrases. This article is an exploration of the idea that a defensible case can be made for the real, if often ephemeral, existence of proper verbs. Evidence is presented from four categories of usage, mainly in English, but also in French and Dutch.
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Coates, R. (2016). On the possibility of proper verbs. Linguistics, 54(2), 411-431. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2016-0005
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | Mar 1, 2016 |
Deposit Date | Oct 8, 2015 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 29, 2024 |
Journal | Linguistics |
Print ISSN | 0024-3949 |
Publisher | De Gruyter |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 54 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 411-431 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2016-0005 |
Keywords | verbs, language |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/918129 |
Publisher URL | http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ling.2016.54.issue-2/ling-2016-0005/ling-2016-0005.xml?format=INT |
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