linguistics, an impersonal verb is one that has no determinate subject. For example, in the sentence "It rains", rain is an impersonal verb and the pronoun...

defective verb is the archaic quoth, a past tense which is the only surviving form of the verb quethe, "to say" (related to bequeath). Impersonal verbs such...

transitive verbs are the most common, but the impersonal and objective verbs are somewhat different from the norm. In the objective, the verb takes an object...

Look up impersonality in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Impersonality may refer to: Impersonal passive voice, a verb voice that decreases the valency...

The impersonal passive voice is a verb voice that decreases the valency of an intransitive verb (which has valency one) to zero.: 77  The impersonal passive...

parties. (static) Get your foot in the door, get known. (dynamic) Impersonal verb List of common English usage misconceptions Despite the superficial...

many of these verbs, but others (such as ōdī) survived but became regular fully conjugated verbs (in Italian, odiare). Impersonal verbs are those lacking...

does participate in a conversation, when there is no subject (with impersonal verbs) and when the subject is not in nominative case (e. g. mene ni doma...

regular verb is any verb whose conjugation follows the typical pattern, or one of the typical patterns, of the language to which it belongs. A verb whose...

verbs is Allerton (1982), who made the important distinction between semantic and syntactic valency. There are several types of valency: impersonal (= avalent)...