• 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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  • verb is present. Subject (grammar) Predicate (grammar) Dependency grammar Object pronoun Prepositional pronoun Transitive verb Intransitive verb Oblique...
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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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  • 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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  • 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, 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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  • Valency is related, though not identical, to subcategorization and transitivity, which count only object arguments – valency counts all arguments, including...
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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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  • 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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  • Grammatical case Object (grammar) Preparatory subject Quirky subject Sentence (linguistics) Subjective (grammar) Term logic Traditional grammar Comrie (1989), pp...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • analysis, the non-standard universes satisfy strong transitivity.[clarification needed] End extension Transitive relation Supertransitive class "Number of rooted...
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  • Verb (section Grammar)
    Phrase structure rules Sentence (linguistics) Syntax Tense–aspect–mood Transitivity (grammatical category) Verb argument Verb framing Verbification Verb...
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    possession, definiteness, politeness, causativity, clusivity, interrogatives, transitivity, valency, polarity, telicity, volition, mirativity, evidentiality, animacy...
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  • Tagalog grammar (Tagalog: Balarilà ng Tagalog) are the rules that describe the structure of expressions in the Tagalog language, one of the languages...
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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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  • 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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  • 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 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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    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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  • language English passive voice Passive voice Patient (grammar) Kroeger, Paul (2005). Analyzing Grammar: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press...
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    English phrasal verbs (category English grammar)
    In the traditional grammar of Modern English, a phrasal verb typically constitutes a single semantic unit consisting of a verb followed by a particle...
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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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    In grammar, the ergative case (abbreviated erg) is the grammatical case that identifies a nominal phrase as the agent of a transitive verb in ergative–absolutive...
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