Transitivity
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**intransitive (NTST): no object | **intransitive (NTST): no object | ||
| + | ***unergative (NERG): the subject is the agent | ||
| + | ***unaccusative (NACC): the subject is not the agent | ||
**direct monotransitive (TST): one direct object | **direct monotransitive (TST): one direct object | ||
**indirect monotransitive (ITST): one indirect object | **indirect monotransitive (ITST): one indirect object | ||
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*English | *English | ||
| − | ** | + | **unergative (NERG) = run (John ran) |
| + | **unaccusative (NACC) = fall (John fell) | ||
**direct monotransitive (TST) = kiss (John kissed Jane) | **direct monotransitive (TST) = kiss (John kissed Jane) | ||
**indirect monotransitive (ITST) = depend (John depend on Jane) | **indirect monotransitive (ITST) = depend (John depend on Jane) | ||
Revision as of 10:36, 18 January 2010
Transitivity is a category that indicates the number of objects a verb requires or takes in a given instance.
Natural language
In the UNLarium framework, transitivity may assume the following values:
Examples
- English
- unergative (NERG) = run (John ran)
- unaccusative (NACC) = fall (John fell)
- direct monotransitive (TST) = kiss (John kissed Jane)
- indirect monotransitive (ITST) = depend (John depend on Jane)
- ditransitive (DTST) = give (John gave Jane an apple)
- tritransitive (TTST) = trade (John traded Jane an apple for an orange)
- ambitransitive (ATST) = eat (John ate or John ate an apple)
UNL
In UNL, transitivity, as a syntactic property, is not to be informed.
