Word: verb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feel the universe in blades of grass and bubbles. He also retains the faith that principles can be turned into models and that models can be explained in words. "The last Puritan," Kenner calls him. Fuller sees reality not as permanence but as process. "I seem to be a verb," he says of himself. A highly active and irregular one, and Kenner conjugates it with great understanding, grace and affection. -R.Z. Sheppard
...important difference between Black English and Standard English is in their widely diverging syntaxes. Black English varies from Standard English in its verb systems, negation patterns, and preposition usage. In general, Black English tends to be more streamlined than Standard English...
Although the verb forms bring, begin, break, going and hear are in the present tense, they are consistent with past actions in the grammar of Black English. The grammar of Standard English would demand that every verb in a sequence be marked either past or present, but in Black English it is sufficient that only one of the verbs be marked...
...occasion, the local DAS, the police force modeled on the Texas Rangers, helped kill 17 Indians accused of rustling cattle. One witness, an elderly trader, recalled that trappers used to offer him cured Indian skin along with crocodile hides and deer pelts. The llaneros even have a verb for Indian-hunting-guahibiar (which is derived from the name of another local Indian tribe, the Guahibo...
...clock hand fastened to the trays to point to the symbol that expresses what they want to say. Naturally there are symbols for such simple words as yes and no, hello and goodbye, man and woman. There is also a symbol for action that turns a noun into a verb. For example, a child who wants to say "Father sees mother" points first to the sign for father, the male symbol topped by the sign for roof or protection ψ. Next the child points to the eye symbol ? and then to the action indicator ψthus transforming the noun...