transitivity
Let an agent handle transitivity by verb, language, valency and usage, for grammar and language learning.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent handle transitivity by verb, language, valency and usage, for grammar and language learning.
A grammatical property of verbs concerning the number of objects they take: intransitive verbs take none, transitive verbs take a direct object, and ditransitive verbs take two; languages such as Japanese mark transitivity pairs morphologically.
What it is for: Describing how verbs combine with objects.
It can be classify verbs as transitive or intransitive; explain transitivity pairs in languages like Japanese; relate transitivity to passive voice; support parsing in software.
Distinguishing features
Property of verbs or clauses
Linked to valency
Varies across languages
Some verbs are ambitransitive
What it looks like
Verb patterns in sentences.
How it is recognised
Presence or absence of objects
Dictionary labels vt and vi
Transitivity in logic is a different sense
Related models
is a kind of - category
is related to - concept
affects - construction
is confused with - another sense
In practice
Families and kinds
intransitive verbs
transitive verbs
ditransitive verbs
ambitransitive verbs
transitivity pairs
Standards and regulation
Universal Dependencies annotation guidelines
Failure modes and hazards
Over-simplifying ambitransitive verbs
Confusing senses
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.transitivity-relation
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Verb Classification.
Verbs vary.
Type
Transitive or not.
Type
Transitivity type.
- Is this verb transitive, intransitive or ditransitive here? definition
- Can it be used both ways? boundary
Dictionary
Labels.
Dictionary
Dictionary labels.
- How does a dictionary label it? provenance
- Do dictionaries disagree? boundary
Languages Cross-linguistic.
Languages differ.
Pairs
Japanese pairs.
Pairs
Transitivity pairs.
- What are the transitive and intransitive forms of this verb pair? definition
- Which pattern does it follow? definition
Marking
Morphology.
Marking
Marking.
- How does this language mark transitivity? provenance
- Which grammar describes it? provenance
Syntax Constructions.
Transitivity affects constructions.
Passive
Voice.
Passive
Passive voice.
- Can this verb be passivised? boundary
- Why or why not? definition
Parsing
Software.
Parsing
Parsing.
- How do parsers annotate objects of this verb? provenance
- Which annotation scheme is used? provenance
Learning Teaching.
Learners need examples.
Examples
Sentences.
Examples
Examples.
- Which example sentences show the difference? action
- Are they natural? boundary
Senses
Disambiguation.
Senses
Other senses.
- Is transitivity in logic or mathematics meant? boundary
- Which entry fits? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should transitivity types be separate entries?
- How should language-specific data be linked?
- How should the logic sense be split off?