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ON TRANSITIVITY AND INTRANSITIVITY IN THE AKHVAKH LANGUAGE

Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2015
The semantic analysis of verbs of the unwritten Akhvakh language, as one from avaro-ando-tsez group of Nakho-Dagestanian languages, is carried out in this paper.
Indira Akhmedovna Abdulaeva
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Nominalization in Q'anjob'al (Maya)

Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2009
Q’anjob’al typically makes a rigid distinction between transitive and intransitive verb inflections. Transitive verbs cross-reference their subjects with an ergative prefix while intransitive verbs cross-reference their subjects with an absolutive prefix.
Mateo, Pedro
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Three levels of root insertion in Basque intransitive verbs

Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2012
Intransitive verbs in Basque vary depending on their subject case and auxiliary selection: (i) some of them (considered unaccusatives and inchoatives) always have an absolutive subject and an intransitive auxiliary; (ii) others (prototypical unergatives)
Ane Berro
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The Analysis of Phrasal Verbs and Its Vicinity in Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love

J-Lalite, 2021
The aim of this study earnestly regards to the forefront of phrasal verbs and its vicinity. After the writer reaps the phrasal verb, the writer contrives them into four sub-divisions: they are: intransitive, transitive, inseparable, and separable phrasal
Octa Pratama Putra
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Corpus-based Transitivity Biases in Individuals with Aphasia

Frontiers in Psychology, 2015
Introduction Spontaneous speech samples in individuals with aphasia (IWA) have been analyzed to examine many different psycholinguistic features. The present study focused on how IWA use verbs in spontaneous speech. Some verbs can occur in more than one
Gayle DeDe
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Bribri media tantum verbs and the rise of labile syntax

Linguistics, 2022
In this article, we first show that the Bribri (Chibchan) middle voice suffix -r derives passive voice from active transitive and agentive intransitive verbs, as well as anticausative verbs from nominal and adjectival roots.
Pacchiarotti Sara, Kulikov Leonid
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AVALENT AND MONOVALENT VERBS IN THE ALBANIAN LANGUAGE [PDF]

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This paper examines avalent and monovalent verbs in the Albanian language and the clause patterns generated with such verbs. Avalent verbs do not select any complement1, whereas monovalent verbs require a complement to form the minimal structure of a ...
Kadire Binaj Ejupi
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Hybrid intransitives in Basque

Glossa, 2020
This paper deals with a group of agentive verbs in Eastern dialects of Basque that show mixed unergative and unaccusative properties. Although they pattern with unergatives in certain aspects, they combine with an absolutive subject and the auxiliary ‘be’
Ane Berro, Anna Pineda
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Transitivity Alternations in North Sámi

Open Linguistics, 2016
In North Sámi, verbs that form transitivity alternation pairs are always distinguished morphologically. However, even if morphology is seen as a reflex of the syntax, the syntactic structure underlying transitive and intransitive verbs in North Sámi ...
Julien Marit
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Arguments or macroroles? : Two functional approaches to Old English quirky case

Journal of English Studies, 2002
After comparing two functional approaches to the question of Old English deviant accusatives, genitives and datives, this paper follows Martín Arista (2001a, b) with respect to Old English prototypical verbal constructions: the prototypical transitive ...
Francisco Javier Martín Arista, Laura Caballero González   +1 more
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