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lexical verb

Thread starter Henrik Larsson
Start date Jan 16, 2007

Henrik Larsson

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Socuéllamos

Spanish

Does anybody know what's exactly a lexical verb? In theory, in grammar that expression is used routinely.

I guess that a lexical verb is the one that is not auxiliay or modal.

👁 roxcyn

Henrik. It is how the words in a sentence are put together. Here is a quote from a book:

"members of the lexical category of verbs (V) have the morphological property of having tense distinctions such as present and past (eg, sing -- sang; walk - walked; drive - drove; is -- was)"

Henrik Larsson

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Socuéllamos

Spanish

Then should, might, could etc aren't lexical?

friedfysh

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Doncaster, UK

England, United Kingdom (English)

I think lexical just means written.

mplsray

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Minneapolis, Minnesota USA

English, USA

Henrik Larsson said:

Does anybody know what's exactly a lexical verb? In theory, in grammar that expression is used routinely.

I guess that a lexical verb is the one that is not auxiliary or modal.