Download or read book First Verbs written by Michael Tomasello and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-03-27 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is hypothesized that more general syntagmatic categories await the formation of a paradigmatic category of verb, and that this in turn awaits complex sentences in which verbs are treated as mental objects by other predicates.