Talk:Verbal noun

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[edit] Old Talk

Wow. Written like a true English teacher.
Now can we get an article that actually explains what a "verbal noun" is (and what it is not)? ;-) - Liberty 05:08, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

It is really difficult to me to understand the reason why nobody knows that the so called "verbal noun" is, actually, only a verb under certain circumstances. A verb which is not in a predicate location, and which has lost certain valences, and time markers.

Only a verb under certain circumstances?

Puh, I doubt it! In certain european languages, perhaps. If you take Georgian, for example, what has been agreed to call "mazdar" is actually a noun (in the sense that you can DECLINE it, as opposed to verbs under circumstances!) working roughly the way our infinitive does. It's really a phenomenon in its own right, so I see no point in explaining it away. Does it take us anywhere? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.190.164.119 (talk) 20:40, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Verbal

Should this article be merged with verbal? FilipeS 17:20, 18 November 2006 (UTC)