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  • In grammar, an intransitive verb is a verb, aside from an auxiliary verb, whose context does not entail a transitive object. That lack of an object distinguishes...
    13 KB (1,783 words) - 06:57, 26 November 2024
  • transitive verb is a verb that entails one or more transitive objects, for example, 'enjoys' in Amadeus enjoys music. This contrasts with intransitive verbs, which...
    13 KB (1,614 words) - 23:30, 18 November 2024
  • a labile verb (or ergative verb) is a verb that undergoes causative alternation; that is, it can be used both transitively and intransitively, with the...
    41 KB (5,440 words) - 06:12, 25 September 2024
  • participles or gerunds. An intransitive verb is one that does not have a direct object. Intransitive verbs may be followed by an adverb (a word that...
    20 KB (2,565 words) - 15:46, 23 October 2024
  • An unergative verb is an intransitive verb that is characterized semantically by having a subject argument which is an agent that actively initiates the...
    4 KB (427 words) - 13:14, 11 April 2024
  • verb or a finite intransitive verb can function as the root of an independent clause. Finite verbs are distinguished from non-finite verbs such as infinitives...
    11 KB (1,422 words) - 11:47, 25 October 2024
  • ("subject") of an intransitive verb behaves like the object of a transitive verb, and differently from the agent ("subject") of a transitive verb. Examples include...
    47 KB (4,505 words) - 15:07, 3 September 2024
  • verb is a verb that is both intransitive and transitive.: 4  This verb may or may not require a direct object. English has many ambitransitive verbs....
    6 KB (752 words) - 17:31, 25 November 2024
  • In linguistics, an unaccusative verb is an intransitive verb whose grammatical subject is not a semantic agent. In other words, the subject does not actively...
    29 KB (3,557 words) - 20:23, 27 November 2024
  • used in some languages to mark the argument of an intransitive verb, but not used with transitive verbs. It is generally seen in languages that display...
    1 KB (117 words) - 19:40, 3 May 2023
  • the marking of the intransitive argument is decided by the speaker, based on semantic considerations. For any given intransitive verb, the speaker may choose...
    21 KB (2,472 words) - 06:09, 30 April 2024
  • Causative (redirect from Causative verb)
    secondarily intransitive. Other verbs like this include smash and extend. Other verbs, such as trip in (3) go the other way: they are primarily intransitive and...
    67 KB (8,509 words) - 17:54, 12 November 2024
  • linguistics a lexical verb or main verb is a member of an open class of verbs that includes all verbs except auxiliary verbs. Lexical verbs typically express...
    2 KB (149 words) - 14:19, 9 August 2021
  • Georgian syntax and verb agreement are largely those of a nominative–accusative language. That is, the subject of an intransitive verb and the subject of...
    44 KB (5,007 words) - 13:06, 26 October 2024
  • An anticausative verb (abbreviated ANTIC) is an intransitive verb that shows an event affecting its subject, while giving no semantic or syntactic indication...
    12 KB (1,361 words) - 21:15, 9 November 2024
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    transitive/ditransitive verbs falling in the l-class and intransitive/semi-transitive verbs in the ∅-class. These classes even extend to how verbs are nominalized...
    34 KB (2,196 words) - 00:48, 10 November 2024
  • Verb Transitive Animate (VTA), Verb Intransitive Inanimate (VII), Verb Transitive Inanimate (VTI), Verb Animate Intransitive (VAI). Verb Intransitive...
    25 KB (1,962 words) - 00:45, 27 June 2024
  • case Intransitive verb Morphosyntactic alignment Secundative language Transitive verb Transitivity (grammar) Valency (linguistics) "Ditransitive Verbs @...
    9 KB (1,228 words) - 00:09, 22 July 2024
  • intransitive equivalent of sink), though for example Czech and Slovak do use a reflexive verb: "loď se potopila"/"loď sa potopila". Reflexive verbs can...
    28 KB (2,450 words) - 13:40, 26 September 2024
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    listed as discrete entries in modern dictionaries. These verbs can be transitive or intransitive. If they are transitive, i.e. if they have an object, the...
    25 KB (3,101 words) - 23:49, 25 November 2024
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