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Noun, verb, adjective – or all three?

Inside Language | Kate Burridge and Peter Clarke discuss how and why we turn nouns into verbs into adjectives

Kate Burridge & Peter Clarke 28 September 2016 28 words

You know what they mean: the English language in action. Ian/Flickr

English is a language of shifting parts, Kate Burridge tells Peter Clarke in the latest in our series of language .

Duration: 11 mins 33 secs

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Kate Burridge is professor of linguistics at Monash University. Peter Clarke is a Melbourne-based broadcaster, writer and educator who pioneered national talkback on Australian radio as the inaugural presenter of Offspring (now Life Matters) on ABC Radio National.

Topics: Inside Language | language

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