Kate Burridge and Peter Clarke discuss how and why we turn nouns into verbs into adjectives. Interview originally appeared on the Inside Story website, 28 September 2016.

Noun, verb, adjective - or all three? (Inside Story)

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Noun, verb, adjective - or all three? (Inside Story)

Noun, verb, adjective - or all three? (Inside Story)