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Direct linkConwell, Erin; Morgan, James L. – Language Learning and Development, 2012
In many languages, significant numbers of words are used in more than one grammatical category; English, in particular, has many words that can be used as both nouns and verbs. Such "ambicategoricality" potentially poses problems for children trying to learn the grammatical properties of words and has been used to argue against the logical…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Usage, Language Processing, English
