ABSTRACT

Q. Make up sentence frames for the adjectives hot, taller, like, the nouns boy, son, secretary, and the verbs to like, to live, to go.s

Domination 237

This element of [not before but yes afterwards] is a basic building block of word meaning in nearly all languages and has a name, the inchoative. We will symbolize it as [Bern] after the English word BeCoMe; you will see that it is the difference between the first and second rows of words below, and in many many more examples, perhaps every verb (Vb) that depicts movement or change.