501 Japanese Verbs

The 501 Verbs books are a great way to pump up your verb and tense knowledge. Since tense is often determined by the verb, you can kill two birds with one stone. 501 Japanese Verbs is a great way to learn Japanese verbs and tenses. By studying this book regularly, you can increase your vocabulary and correct verb tense. This book presents each verb in formal and informal usages for every tense possible, as well as affirmative and negative forms. In total, you will learn somewhere around fifty ways to use each verb!

501 Japanese Verbs

Kim, Marcus, Pinker, Hollander & Coppola (1994) argue that thepreference children and adults show for regular inflection for verbs andnouns with novel meanings (e.g. The batter *flew/flied out to centrefield) should be attributed to their grammatically based sensitivity to thederivations of these verbs and nouns. However, it could also be thatspeakers avoid the use of irregular forms to avoid conveying theconventional meaning associated with the irregular form, such asliterally flying to centre field. This paper, in reply to Kim et al. (1994),reinterprets their findings and argues for a semantic/functional account,without resorting to a grammatical account. 041b061a72