VERB: verb
Definition
A verb is a member of the syntactic class of words that typically signal events and actions, can constitute a minimal predicate in a clause, and govern the number and types of other constituents which may occur in the clause.
Note that the VERB tag covers main verbs (content verbs), but it does not cover auxiliary verbs and copulas, for which there is the AUX tag.
Classical Armenian verbs can have the following forms:
- Finite verb
Fin(forms inflected for person) - Infinitive
Inf(uninflected form coding the secondary predication) - Converb
Conv(uninflected form with an optative meaning) - Participle
Part(inflected past participle) - Verbal noun
Vnoun(inflected deverbal noun; the nominative counsides with the infinitive)
Although the verbal noun functions as a nominal and the past participle can be used adjectivally, they are consistently tagged VERB or AUX.
Finite verbs can be marked for: Person, Number, Aspect, Mood, Polarity, Tense, and Voice. Participles and verbal nouns have Case.
Examples
- Finate verb: գրեմ/grem ‘I write’
- Infinitive: գրել/grel ‘to write’
- Converb: գալոց/galocʽ ‘for coming’
- Participle: մտեալ/mteal ‘entering’
- Verbal noun: գրել/grel ‘writing’
References
Jensen, Hans. 1959. Altarmenische Grammatik. Heidelberg: Winter.
Meillet, Antoine. 1913. Altarmenisches Elementarbuch. Heidelberg: Winters (Internet Archive)
Klingenschmitt, Gert. 1982. Das Altarmenische Verbum. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag.
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