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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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=== Examples === | |||
*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 08:36, 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:
{{#tree:id=nl_TRA|openlevels=0|root=Transitivity (TRA)|
- 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
- indirect monotransitive (ITST): one indirect object
- ditransitive (DTST): one direct object and one indirect object
- tritransitive (TTST): three objects
- ambitransitive (ATST): both transitive and intransitive
- intransitive (NTST): no object
}}
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.
