USC and UCLA football will not meet on the field for another few weeks, but according to the transitive property, we already know which team is better. On Friday, the Trojans defeated Northwestern ...

WHEN we were children and just beginning to learn English grammar, many of us were taken aback by the strange failure of some verbs to work in certain sentence constructions. For instance, perhaps ...

Focuses on understanding verbs, explaining their two main categories: action verbs and state of being verbs. It distinguishes between transitive and intransitive verbs based on whether they have a ...

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 ...

There have been many studies on the capability of non-human animals to mimic transitive actions—actions that have a purpose. Hardly any studies have shown that animals are also capable of intransitive ...

Gone are the days when Tickle Me Elmo and Furby were in such high demand during the holiday season that parents couldn’t get their hands on them. While must-have toys have changed over the years, toys ...

Shiggoap Alfie Price is a student of three Southeast Alaska Native languages and leads Sm’algyax classes online. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO) This is Tongass Voices, a series from KTOO sharing ...