Verbs
The characteristic syntactic function of verbs is to act as the heads of predications in which they occur. They are defined by a number of properties:
- They typically index the person and number of the subject of the sentence.
- They may contain transitivity-altering prefixes.
- They may not function as noun-phrase modifiers in certain frames.
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