the verb see is described as having "lower transitivity" than the verb kill). The notion of transitivity, as well as other notions that today are the...
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Look up transitivity or transitive in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Transitivity or transitive may refer to: Transitivity (grammar), a property of...
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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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Intransitive verb (category Transitivity and valency)
In grammar, an intransitive verb is a verb whose context does not entail a direct object. That lack of transitivity distinguishes intransitive verbs from...
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verb is present. Subject (grammar) Predicate (grammar) Dependency grammar Object pronoun Prepositional pronoun Transitive verb Intransitive verb Oblique...
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Ditransitive verb (category Transitivity and valency)
alignment Secundative language Transitive verb Transitivity (grammar) Valency (linguistics) "Ditransitive Verbs @ The Internet Grammar of English". Hopper, Paul...
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Split ergativity Symmetrical voice (aka Austronesian alignment) Transitivity (grammar) Unaccusative verb Unergative verb Comrie (1989), p. 110ff. R.W...
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In grammar, an article is any member of a class of dedicated words that are used with noun phrases to mark the identifiability of the referents of the...
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Valency (linguistics) (redirect from Valency (grammar))
Valency is related, though not identical, to subcategorization and transitivity, which count only object arguments – valency counts all arguments, including...
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In formal language theory, a context-free grammar (CFG) is a formal grammar whose production rules can be applied to a nonterminal symbol regardless of...
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Georgian grammar has many distinctive and extremely complex features, such as split ergativity and a polypersonal verb agreement system. Georgian has...
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outlines the grammar of the Dutch language, which shares strong similarities with German grammar and also, to a lesser degree, with English grammar. Vowel length...
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Ambitransitive verb (category Transitivity and valency)
Valency (linguistics) Transitivity (grammar) Dixon, R.M.W. & Aikhenvald, Alexendra Y. Changing Valency: Case Studies in Transitivity. Cambridge University...
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In grammar, the voice (aka diathesis) of a verb describes the relationship between the action (or state) that the verb expresses and the participants...
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Grammatical case Object (grammar) Preparatory subject Quirky subject Sentence (linguistics) Subjective (grammar) Term logic Traditional grammar Comrie (1989), pp...
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Impersonal verb (category Transitivity and valency)
passive voice Impersonal pronoun "one" Null-subject language Transitive verb Transitivity (grammar) Loureiro-Porto, L. (2010). A Review of Early English Impersonals:...
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Hindi–Urdu grammar is that of "conjunct verbs", composed of a noun or adjective paired up with a general verbaliser, most commonly transitive karnā "to...
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adopted more or less directly into Latin and Greek grammars; from there, it made its way into English grammars, where it is applied directly to the analysis...
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Morphosyntactic alignment (redirect from S (grammar))
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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A formal grammar describes which strings from an alphabet of a formal language are valid according to the language's syntax. A grammar does not describe...
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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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analysis, the non-standard universes satisfy strong transitivity.[clarification needed] End extension Transitive relation Supertransitive class "Number of rooted...
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Functional linguistics (redirect from Functionalist theories of grammar)
of conveying meaning and contextual information. Functional theories of grammar belong to structural and, broadly, humanistic linguistics, considering...
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Traditional grammar (also known as classical grammar) is a framework for the description of the structure of a language. The roots of traditional grammar are...
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English grammar is the set of structural rules of the English language. This includes the structure of words, phrases, clauses, sentences, and whole texts...
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Grammatical conjugation (redirect from Conjugation (grammar))
possession, definiteness, politeness, causativity, clusivity, interrogatives, transitivity, valency, polarity, telicity, volition, mirativity, evidentiality, animacy...
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The grammar of Modern Hebrew shares similarities with that of its Biblical Hebrew counterpart, but it has evolved significantly over time. Modern Hebrew...
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page on the topic of: Transitivity FAQ from the Usenet newsgroup sci.lang.japan An introduction to Japanese - Syntax, Grammar & Language, online version...
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Construction grammar (often abbreviated CxG) is a family of theories within the field of cognitive linguistics which posit that constructions, or learned...
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