Sentence examples for verb stem from inspiring English sources

Consequently, subject pronouns tend to precede the verb stem.

To denote repeated action, the verb stem (or parts of it) may be reduplicated.

Other languages keep the extensions separated from the verb stem, leaving them as detached particles.

The imperfective verb stem is often identifiable as a participial form, or "verbal noun".

Inflectionally governed ablaut, or vowel alternation, is systematically found in the final vowel of the verb stem.

These tend to use specific suppletive forms; that is, they replace the verb stem itself with another stem.

There were two classes of verb stems.

A widespread and rather permanent distinction is that between perfective/imperfective aspect verb stems in such distantly related groups as Saharan, Taman, Nyimang, and the Surmic languages.

As is done in Cretan and Old Athenian, they add gh to the suffix -ev- that occurs at the end of many verb stems (dhulévgho 'I work,' standard dhulévo).

These results are consistent with the hypothesis that the neural signatures for verb inflection differ from that for verb stems alone and involve a distributed frontal and parietal network of brain regions.

Derivational extensions of verb stems (forming what are called "stirpes" or "themes") use root modification (infixes) and derivative affixes together with partial or complete reduplication to indicate repeated action.