The past week witnessed the frequent occurrence of the words ‘resign’ and its derivative ‘resignation’ in the print, electronic and social media, thanks to LK Advani who stunned the BJP with his ...

When a sentence uses a transitive verb to describe an action, it’s necessary for the subject to take a direct object and to act on it: “The woman spurned her suitor last week.” ...

This week’s column is on verbs followed by an object. Using transitive verbs without an object is a frequent error committed by learners of English. For example, it ...

International Journal of American Linguistics, Vol. 23, No. 3 (Jul., 1957), pp. 179-218 (40 pages) ...

Nama, a Papuan language spoken in southern New Guinea, indexes the person and number of the A argument of a transitive verb with a suffix, and the P argument with a prefix. For a large subset of ...