detransitivize


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Verb1.detransitivize - intransitivize; "removing the object will intransitivize the verbs"
detransitivise, intransitivise, intransitivize
alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
transitivise, transitivize - make transitive; "adding `out' to many verbs transitivizes them"
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realize this is to detransitivize our syntax and, by extension, our
Homo Faber
This explains, in the first place, why some transitive verbs that do not detransitivize, such as cut and handle, can be used in the middle analogously to the transitive uses of ergative verbs such as open.
On the middle voice: an interpersonal analysis of the English middle *
(28)-(30) presuppose that only transitive verbs which encode a causal relation between two subevents detransitivize. Antipassives denote the causing event, while anticausatives and passives denote the caused event.
Split intransitivity, linking, and lexical representation: the case of Yukatek Maya *

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