Citations:transitive-verb

English citations of transitive-verb

Attributive form of transitive verb edit

  • 1984, Martha Kolln, Language and Composition: A Workbook, Macmillan Publishing Company (→ISBN):
    You can think of Pattern 1 as the basic transitive-verb pattern, with its three slots:...
  • 1985, Jan Svartvik, On Voice in the English Verb, Walter de Gruyter (→ISBN), page 2:
    His remedy is to "permit in the expansion of the underlying constituent trees preceding all grammatical transformation rules the optional selection in any transitive-verb sentence of a special Agentive constituent. [...]"
  • 2015, Charles Clifton, Jr., Lyn Frazier, Keith Rayner, Perspectives on Sentence Processing, →ISBN:
    Fig. 2.4 also indicates that auxiliary verbs in sentences containing transitively biased verbs also elicited a P600, although reduced in amplitude and more restricted in distribution than the P600 elicited by pure transitive-verb sentences.

Other variants of transitive verb edit

  • 2005, Peter Carruthers, Stephen Laurence, Stephen Stich, The Innate Mind: Structure and Contents, →ISBN:
    Moreover, in practice, nativism about general capacities claims that, for example, language has a robust end-state that requires a distinctive developmental trajectory involving both specialized, domain-specific innate components such as binding theory and significant environmental input such as that which provides the parameters for the direct-object/transitive-verb relation as appropriate for the local environment.
  • 2012, A. Abeillé, Treebanks: Building and Using Parsed Corpora, →ISBN, page 30:
    For instance, introductory textbooks of linguistics very commonly suggest that the two most basic English sentence types are the types "subject—transitive-verb—object", and "subject—intransitive-verb".