verb patterns

The example Žižek cites is the way in which children must learn the exceptions to verb patterns (saying 'bled' instead of 'bleeded', for example) in order to develop linguistic competence.

Phrasal verbs are not so commonly used in Indo-Aryan languages; however, Konkani spoken in Dravidian regions has borrowed numerous phrasal verb patterns.

It may seem the 'odd man out' but it proved to be popular with pupils and teachers and a very good vehicle for teaching aspects of language such as word order, verb patterns, agreements, gender and language evolution.

This provided the groundwork for an English-language publication on the structure of Modern Hebrew (1978) - dealing not only with nominalizations, but also with issues such as tense-aspect and the Hebrew system of binyan verb patterns - a study that to this day is a key source of reference for researchers in relevant domains.