In linguistics, transitivity is a property of verbs that relates to whether a verb can take objects and how many such objects a verb can take. It is closely...
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Transitivity is traditionally thought of as a global property of a clause, by which activity is transferred from an agent to a patient. Transitive verbs...
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Valency is related, though not identical, to subcategorization and transitivity, which count only object arguments – valency counts all arguments, including...
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Verb (redirect from TUTT (linguistics))
utterance Phrasal verb Phrase structure rules Sentence (linguistics) Syntax Tense–aspect–mood Transitivity (grammatical category) Verb argument Verb framing...
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Object (grammar) (redirect from Object (linguistics))
In linguistics, an object is any of several types of arguments. In subject-prominent, nominative-accusative languages such as English, a transitive verb...
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Functional linguistics is an approach to the study of language characterized by taking systematically into account the speaker's and the hearer's side...
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Intransitive verb (category Transitivity and valency)
and emotion.: 54–61 The valency of a verb is related to transitivity. Where the transitivity of a verb only considers the objects, the valency of a verb...
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Grammatical conjugation (redirect from Conjugation (linguistics))
possession, definiteness, politeness, causativity, clusivity, interrogatives, transitivity, valency, polarity, telicity, volition, mirativity, evidentiality, animacy...
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Topic and comment (redirect from Topic (linguistics))
Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 71. Dordrecht: Kluwer. (ix + 216 pp.) review Halliday, Michael A. K. 1967–68. "Notes on transitivity and theme in...
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Inflection (redirect from Invariant (linguistics))
number of potential forms. Transitivity is a thoroughgoing division of Basque verbs, and it is necessary to know the transitivity of a particular verb in...
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Subject (grammar) (redirect from Subject (linguistics))
dictionary. Complement (linguistics) Copula Grammatical case Object (grammar) Preparatory subject Quirky subject Sentence (linguistics) Subjective (grammar)...
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Ditransitive verb (category Transitivity and valency)
Morphosyntactic alignment Secundative language Transitive verb Transitivity (grammar) Valency (linguistics) "Ditransitive Verbs @ The Internet Grammar of...
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Applicative voice (category Transitivity and valency)
doi:10.1075/sl.34.4.01bug. Dewell, Robert B. (2015). Be- verbs and transitivity. In The Semantics of German Verb Prefixes (pp. 59-64). Philadelphia,...
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subjects (regardless of verb transitivity) are marked (in this case with a null suffix) the same for case while transitive objects take the accusative...
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Passive voice (category Transitivity and valency)
Dixon; Alexendra Aikhenvald (eds.). Changing Valency: Case Studies in Transitivity. Cambridge University Press. p. 90. ISBN 9780521660396. Anagnostopoulou...
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In linguistics, a stratum (Latin for "layer") or strate is a historical layer of language that influences or is influenced by another language through...
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In fact, this use of the term is the one that currently dominates in linguistics. A main aspect of this understanding of complements is that the subject...
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Salishan languages (section Historical linguistics)
American Linguistics 71.1, January 2005. Davis, Henry. and Matthewson, Lisa. (2009). Issues in Salish Syntax and Semantics. Language and Linguistics Compass...
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In linguistics, volition is a concept that distinguishes whether the subject, or agent of a particular sentence intended an action or not. Simply, it...
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typology of inchoative/causative verb alternations". Causatives and transitivity, edited by Bernard Comrie & Maria Polinsky. Studies in Language Companion...
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In linguistics, an argument is an expression that helps complete the meaning of a predicate, the latter referring in this context to a main verb and its...
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In linguistics, possession is an asymmetric relationship between two constituents, the referent of one of which (the possessor) in some sense possesses...
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Linguistic typology (redirect from Typology (linguistics))
Linguistic typology (or language typology) is a field of linguistics that studies and classifies languages according to their structural features to allow...
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In linguistics, incorporation is a phenomenon by which a grammatical category, such as a verb, forms a compound with its direct object (object incorporation)...
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In linguistics and philosophy, modality refers to the ways language can express various relationships to reality or truth. For instance, a modal expression...
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Word order (redirect from Arbitrary word order (linguistics))
In linguistics, word order (also known as linear order) is the order of the syntactic constituents of a language. Word order typology studies it from...
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Causative (category Transitivity and valency)
apply to action verbs? 2. Transitivity: Does the causative apply to only intransitives, to intransitives and some transitives, or to all verbs? (b) Parameters...
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example. Transitive alignment: certain Iranian languages, such as Rushani, distinguish only transitivity (in the past tense), using a transitive case for...
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Subcategorization (redirect from Subcategorization (linguistics))
grammar Transitivity Valency Chomsky (1965) is a prominent early source on the concept of subcategorization. The valency concept in linguistics is originally...
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In grammar and theoretical linguistics, government or rection refers to the relationship between a word and its dependents. One can discern between at...
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