She points out that
transitive verbs may be semantically different, like for instance surra 'to aggrieve' and lyoda 'to hit': the derivative surettaa expresses a direct causation (the subject referent has an immediate effect on the object), whereas lyottaa involves an indirect causation (the subject argument gives the hitter an order to act).
But this alleged result state arises not because the predicate befestette a keritest 'has painted the fence' contains a verbal particle, but because the
transitive verb fest 'paint' expresses an inherently directed event/motion (contrary to transitives nez 'look, watch', dob 'throw', erint 'touch', lat 'see', hall 'hear', csoval 'frisk', kapar 'scrape', enekel 'sing' etc.); the verbal particle itself is there only to mark the ending of the event.
Between the object of the
transitive verb and the subject of the intransitive verb, there is a formal parallel that is marked by <-ing> when definite but unmarked when it is indefinite.
The last place line had functioned as a
transitive verb was in the work of Newman, who died in 1970.
Besides, instead of a
transitive verb, we may have a verb plus a preposition or an adverbial followed by a nominal:
'There is a difference,' Dixon goes on to concede: 'an A NP almost always has the potentiality of exercising control for any
transitive verb ...
In some morpho-syntactic systems, anticausatives have corresponding
transitive verbs based on the same root.
with the non-finite elative forms of intransitive verbs the personal affix indicates the S argument possessor, but with
transitive verbs there are further stipulations to be dealt with, see (14-16).
This study aims at contrastively investigating the transitive-based resultative constructions in Thai and English in which the causative predicate is manifested by two types of
transitive verb which are postulated in this article, namely, "implied-result verbs" and "entailed-result verbs." Specifically, this article aims to identify constraints on co-occurrences between causative and resultative predicates in the transitive-based resultative constructions in the two languages.
No, with no suggestion that it is either obsolete or archaic, Webster's Third identifies cess as a
transitive verb in British usage meaning "to tax"; hence, an "elk-cessor" would literally be an "elk-taxer" (in the financial sense).
In (5a), der Junge 'the boy' is the actor and den Kuchen 'the cake' is the undergoer of the
transitive verb aufessen 'eat up'; in the sentences with intransitive verbs, Der Hund is an actor with the activity verb herumlaufen 'run around' and an undergoer with the accomplishment verb sterben 'die'.
* Grow as a
transitive verb has also become trendy but is nevertheless unacceptable to many thoughtful readers.
Of course, grow can be a
transitive verb, but past usage has confined that usage to the farm."
When a
transitive verb takes a direct object, adverbs follow the object.
It can be argued that prototypical transitivity is relevant here, since the choice between coding the recipient like the patient of a core
transitive verb or like a peripheral participant correlates with a greater or lesser degree of affectedness, but the mere contrast between essential and non-essential participants cannot explain the contrast.
