Sentence examples for a lexical verb from inspiring English sources

There is a grammatical transitivity concord between a lexical verb and the mood auxiliary.

As presented in section A grammatical sketch of Tsou, grammatical transitivity is morphologically marked on a lexical verb as well as on the preverbal mood auxiliary in Tsou.

A Complement, or an Adjunct, which occurs immediately after a lexical verb and before a Subject, is also considered part of a marked Theme.

In low adverbial verb constructions, the first verb is always an adverbial verb, such as manner and frequency adverbials, and the second verb is a lexical verb.

What is most relevant to the main point of this paper is that a lexical verb is morphologically marked for grammatical transitivity.

The former contains an initial lexical verb in its predication and has the pattern V-SBJ-COMP (verb-Subject-Complement). The latter consists of an initial noun functioning as a Subject followed by a Complement (COMP), or a lexical verb.

For example, in the fifth month, Tai Dam people are free from farming activities and so take the opportunity to visit their family and friends as illustrated in example 12. Clause 35 is constructed by a serial verb construction: lexical verb 'travel', which is a happening material clause and 'visit', which is a doing material clause.

Tsez biabsolutive constructions, on the other hand, are biclausal; we argue that the theme and the lexical verb are contained in a PP complement selected by a light verb.

Clause 49.2 is a relational clause, which is expressed by the lexical verb 'be rough'.

It is an identifying clause which is realized by the lexical verb 'be'be

As in 2a, the intransitive lexical verb mosi co-occurs with an intransitive mood auxiliary mo; in contrast, the transitive lexical verbs sia, sii, and sieni pattern with a transitive mood auxiliary i-, as in 2b-d.