In grammar, a ditransitive (or bitransitive) verb is a transitive verb whose contextual use corresponds to a subject and two objects which refer to a theme...
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Verbs that entail two objects, a direct object and an indirect object, are ditransitive, or less commonly bitransitive. An example of a ditransitive verb...
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ditransitives and double transitive verbs. Some verbs have special grammatical uses and hence complements, such as copular verbs (i.e., be); the verb...
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linguistics a lexical verb or main verb is a member of an open class of verbs that includes all verbs except auxiliary verbs. Lexical verbs typically express...
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Tsez language (section Ditransitive verbs)
the causative suffix -r. It increases the valency of any verb by 1. If a ditransitive verb is formed from a transitive one, the causee (i.e. the argument...
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Valency (linguistics) (redirect from Verb valency)
verb form, Llueve.) An intransitive verb takes one argument, e.g. He1 sleeps. A transitive verb takes two, e.g. He1 kicked the ball2. A ditransitive verb...
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transitive.[6] All other verbs are considered intransitive.[6] Transitivity (grammatical category) Transitive verbs Verbs Ditransitive verbs Valency (linguistics)...
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Causative (redirect from Causative verb)
intransitive verbs, yielding a ditransitive verb. So far, there are no reliable data for a morphological double causative of a transitive verb, resulting...
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Lexical semantics (section Ditransitive verbs)
tests with ditransitive verbs that confirm c-command also confirm the presence of underlying or invisible causative verbs. In ditransitive verbs such as...
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A modal verb is a type of verb that contextually indicates a modality such as a likelihood, ability, permission, request, capacity, suggestion, order,...
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reflexive verb is, loosely, a verb whose direct object is the same as its subject, for example, "I wash myself". More generally, a reflexive verb has the...
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Dutch grammar (section Ditransitive verbs)
eat" contains an unergative intransitive verb. Most ditransitive verbs can also be used as monotransitive verbs (with only one object, direct or indirect)...
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Passive voice (redirect from Passive verb)
voice, the grammatical subject expresses the theme or patient of the main verb – that is, the person or thing that undergoes the action or has its state...
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In linguistic typology, a subject–object–verb (SOV) language is one in which the subject, object, and verb of a sentence always or usually appear in that...
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Applicative voice (redirect from Verb applicative)
sometimes called the applied object. For transitive verbs, the resulting verb can be ditransitive, or the original object is no longer expressed. If the...
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Grammatical conjugation (redirect from Verb conjugation)
transitive/ditransitive verbs falling in the l-class and intransitive/semi-transitive verbs in the ∅-class. These classes even extend to how verbs are nominalized...
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Copula (linguistics) (redirect from Be (verb))
often a verb or a verb-like word, though this is not universally the case. A verb that is a copula is sometimes called a copulative or copular verb. In English...
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In linguistic typology, a verb–subject–object (VSO) language has its most typical sentences arrange their elements in that order, as in Ate Sam oranges...
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expression that follows a direct object of an attributive ditransitive verb or resultative verb and that complements the direct object of the sentence by...
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V2 word order (redirect from Verb-Second)
In syntax, verb-second (V2) word order is a sentence structure in which the finite verb of a sentence or a clause is placed in the clause's second position...
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An auxiliary verb (abbreviated aux) is a verb that adds functional or grammatical meaning to the clause in which it occurs, so as to express tense, aspect...
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Korean grammar (section Subject–verb agreement)
"He came to me and became a flower." (adverb, then complement) A ditransitive verb carries three arguments, which always include an essential adverb...
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ditransitive verbs (which takes a subject and two objects: a theme and a recipient) are treated like the patients (targets) of monotransitive verbs,...
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typology, object–verb–subject (OVS) or object–verb–agent (OVA) is a rare permutation of word order. OVS denotes the sequence object–verb–subject in unmarked...
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traditional grammar of Modern English, a phrasal verb typically constitutes a single semantic unit consisting of a verb followed by a particle (e.g., turn down...
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An attributive verb is a verb that modifies (expresses an attribute of) a noun in the manner of an attributive adjective, rather than express an independent...
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In linguistic typology, subject–verb–object (SVO) is a sentence structure where the subject comes first, the verb second, and the object third. Languages...
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The impersonal passive voice is a verb voice that decreases the valency of an intransitive verb (which has valency one) to zero.: 77 The impersonal passive...
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In linguistic typology, object–subject–verb (OSV) or object–agent–verb (OAV) is a classification of languages, based on whether the structure predominates...
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Liaison (French) (section Liaison on inverted verbs)
subject) and the verb: Mes amis arrivent /me.z‿a.mi ∅ a.ʁiv/ ("My friends are arriving.") between two complements of a ditransitive verb: donner des cadeaux...
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