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transitive verb
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Noun1.transitive verb - a verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical
transitive, transitive verb form
verb - the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence
doubly transitive verb, doubly transitive verb form - a transitive verb that takes both a direct and an indirect object
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Kortvely stated, and obviously with a good reason as she has carried out respective tests with native-speaking informants, that the views spread in Samoyedology to the effect that the choice of the indefinite and definite conjugations in Tundra Nenets--as if the definite conjugation can be used with the transitive verbs when, first of all, the logical emphasis or the syntactical focus is on the predicate--are erroneous by nature already (Kortvely 2005 : 114-115, 118-119; cf.
On the 3rd person verbal mark er *-sV and the definite conjugation in ... by Kunnap, Ago / Linguistica Uralica
that do spreads more rapidly with transitive verbs than with intransitive, that do is more likely used if there is an adverb before the lexical verb and that certain individual verbs resisted the do-construction more than others.
What makes a syntactic change stop? On the decline of periphrastic do ... by Wischer, Ilse / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
If one were to list all the transitive verbs involved in its construction, they would easily include "gathering," "collecting," and "sorting" (none of which, by the way, makes it onto Serra's more steroidal list of actions).
Caroline Lathan-Stiefel by Asher, R. / ArtUS
 
 
 
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