And while dolls and teddy bears were sold with little external packaging, that covering boys' toys was "busy", denoting action and speed with strong colours and wording that evoked excitement and machismo.
By contrast, atelic verbs such as "negotiate" or "think" denote actions of indefinite duration.
Gross motor skills refer to acts in which the larger muscles are commonly involved, while fine motor skills denote actions of the hands and fingers.
Apparently, 'killing dogs' and 'killing hounds' do not denote actions of the same kind (the first may have denoted slaughtering mongrels for their meat, the second killing hunting or working dogs).
The word makruh, which not only literally means dislike, but is also used as a legal standard to denote actions that are displeasing to God, also comes from the same root.
All languages, for instance, make a basic distinction between a group of words that prototypically denotes things and concepts and a group of words that prototypically denotes actions and events.
All verbs denoted actions performed with the hand or arm (e.g., write, throw) while nouns referred to imaginable concrete entities without specific motor associations (e.g., mill, cliff) and were used as control words.
The square shapes denote actions taken by women and their families on the pathway from the onset of chronic illness to death, while circles represent factors contributing to these actions.
(We need action variables to denote action expressions and equalities between action variables and actions (or rather action expressions) as well as (universal) quantification over action variables).
Unlike morphological light verbs, which denote action, state, or change-of-state, low linkers do not have any semantic content.
Given that the processes that denote action in either of the two aforementioned Transitivity systems include actions that imply intention as well as a lack thereof (i.e. bodily reactions), there seems to be no reason why a separate category is actually needed to represent many of the physiological and psychological behaviours.
