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Even if ' verb ' is taken here as a shorthand for ' argument-taker ', it may be thought that no harm is done, because prototypical argument-takers are verbs.
Pathbreaking verbs in syntactic development and the question of prototypical transitivity.
As predicted, accomplishments were more prototypical than activities for the past perfective in the current study.
One might argue that our results reflect a trend towards activities being more prototypical than accomplishments, suggesting the -ing hierarchy applies.
Expression of other moods (and modalities) may lack some of the characteristics associated with the prototypical, without ceasing to be finite.
We have no idea what a prototypical compound noun is or what a prototypical compound is; no doubt it varies by language.
As regards shortening and source form, prototypical blends result from clipping and joining two words.
Not only do they use both short and long forms available in the language, they passivize experiential verbs as well as the prototypical action verbs.
However, in a prototypical context (in a description of a sequence of events) the overall percentage of children using ingressives is much higher.
Thus, a target use might be classified as prototypical for some participants but peripheral for others, depending on their actual judgments.
Fricatives and oral stops, which are phonetically prototypical continuants and non-continuants, are much more consistent in their patterning with respect to [continuant].
Prototypical examples of intrinsic motivation include play, exploration, and curiosity-oriented behaviors.
Both younger and older adults rated "fever" and "hepatitis" as the two most prototypical but differed on their rankings of all other items.
If not otherwise specified, the term 'descriptive genitive' in the present article refers to the prototypical case of 'classifying genitive'.
The prototypical traumatic victimization in this literature was a terrifying, unpredictable event, occurring to an otherwise unsuspecting and unafflicted person.
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