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Anonymous W hat is a verbial? Are verbal s and verbial s are the same or no t? I’ve never heard the term ‘verbial’.
- Anonymous W hat is a verbial?
- Are verbal s and verbial s are the same or no t?
- I’ve never heard the term ‘verbial’.
- There’s ‘ ad verbial’, which refers to an expression used to modify a verb or VP in clause structure, as in I talked to him this morning .
- This site defines ‘verbal’ as “a verb-form that functions in a sentence as a noun or a modifier rather than as a verb” and applies the term to infinitives, · ing forms, and participles.
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AnonymousWhat is a verbial? Are verbals and verbialsarethe same or not?
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Assuming that "verbial" is not simply a mistake for "verbal", it seems to be an obscure and highly technical term. At the link below it is defined as "any expression belonging to the semantic category of a functor of a propositional function having exclusively nominal arguments" ... whatever that means!
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