TRANSITIVITY

Transitivity

In linguistics, transitivity is a property of verbs that relates to whether a verb can take direct objects and how many such objects a verb can take. It is closely related to valency, which considers other verb arguments in addition to direct objects. It is also important to note that we only consider the obligatory noun phrases and prepositional phrases when it comes to determining how many arguments a predicate has. Obligatory elements are considered arguments while optional ones are never counted in the list of arguments.

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transitivity

Noun

  1. The degree in which any one verb can take/govern objects.
    There are 3 degrees of transitivity of any one verb: intransitive, monotransitive and ditransitive.
  2. The property of being transitive.
    The inference rule states the transitivity of implication.


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