1 School of Foreign Studies, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China 2 Center for Language Cognition and Assessment, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China Distinct from nominal ...

As a teacher, identifying parts of speech can seem like a daunting task. Yet, teaching or reviewing the concept of linking verbs, predicate adjectives, and predicate nouns is important in order to ...

Let's not forget the power of the complete sentence and the humble predicate verb — the "motor" of a good sentence An analysis out of Washington suggests that some top military brass have had it with ...

1 Ewha Womans University, Republic of Korea 2 Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Public Health, Temple University, United States Introduction. Many studies have focused on ...

We report a study that explored the mechanisms used in hypothesizing meanings for novel motion predicates (verbs and prepositions) cross-linguistically. Motion stimuli were presented to English- and ...

You know those laminated copies of my columns you keep in a fake can of peas hidden under the floorboard of your pantry? What's so unexpected about the sentence is that "fell" turns out to be the ...