Quote by Daniel L. Everett

“Although Pirahã nouns are simple, Pirahã verbs are much more complicated. Each verb can have as many as sixteen suffixes—that is, up to sixteen…

— Daniel L. Everett

I haven't seen any claim that Piraha lacks recursion, that is, that there are a finite number of sentences or sentence frames. If that's…

— Noam Chomsky

“Finally, the Pirahã language is notoriously difficult because it lacks things that many other languages have, especially in the way that it puts sentences…

— Daniel L. Everett

The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only 3 per cent of the language.

— Erez Lieberman Aiden

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.

— Edward Sapir

Verbs. All of them tiring.

— Charles Frazier

In English every word can be verbed.

— Alan Perlis

There are a lot of other things besides nouns.

— Gertrude Stein

I am still studying verbs and the mystery of how they connect nouns. I am more suspicious of adjectives than at any other time…

— Carl Sandburg

Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Any noun can be verbed.

— Alan Perlis

Now multitudes of root words are identical in the American languages over vast areas some of them with precisely the same senses, and others…

— John W. Dawson