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inchoative verb  

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Example

  • a more proficient English speaker would probably use the word electronics rather than the expression electrical goods/products while native-like Italian speakers tend to use the inchoative verb infuriarsi more than the construction diventare furiosi (literally "becoming furious"). (Masciolini, 2024)
  • Categories of future oriented verbs include mental activity ("anticipate" "expect") affective ("fear" "worry") planning ("plan" "prepare" "schedule") threatening ("threaten" "advocate" "warn") and inchoative verbs ("start" "initiate" and "launch"). (Huang, Cases, Jurafsky, Condoravdi & Riloff, 2016)
  • The verb types are determined by the subject of the sentence where the corresponding inchoative verb is used. (Kuribayashi, Ito, Suzuki & Inui, 2020)
  • This said consider the causative/inchoative pairs in (9)-(11) where an inchoative verb can appear as part of an idiom while its causative counterpart cannot. (Takehisa, 2013)

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