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Verb that does not entail a direct object
In grammar, an intransitive verb is a verb, aside from an auxiliary verb, whose context does not entail a transitive object. That lack of an object distinguishes intransitive verbs from transitive verbs, which entail one or more objects. Additionally, intransitive verbs are typically considered within a class apart from modal verbs and defective verbs. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Intransitive verbA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: <em>Bootstrapping where?</em> Location changes disrupt intransitive verb mappingInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The unaccusativity puzzleThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Gradients in Auxiliary Selection with Intransitive VerbsCited 274 times
- Go sideways: Ambitransitive verbA closely related topic
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📖 Definitions
Noun An action verb which does not take a direct object.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Gradients in Auxiliary Selection with Intransitive Verbs
Lexical Disambiguation in Verb Learning: Evidence from the Conjoined-Subject Intransitive Frame in English and Mandarin Chinese
The categories verb-noun and transitive-intransitive in English and Squamish
Verb argument structure overgeneralisations for the English intransitive and transitive constructions: grammaticality judgments and production priming
The acquisition of the transitive and intransitive action verb categories in Japanese
Cashibo II: Grammemic Analysis of Transitive and Intransitive Verb Patterns
Verb Class Meanings of the Abstract Finals in Ojibway Inanimate Intransitive Verbs
Xinkan Verb Categorization: Morphosyntactic Marking on Intransitive Verbs
🆕 Influential since 2022
<em>Bootstrapping where?</em> Location changes disrupt intransitive verb mapping
Verification of Factors Involved in Learning Japanese Intransitive Verb-Transitive Verb
Non-Pronominal Intransitive Verb Variants with Property Interpretation: A Characterization
A New Perspective on the State of Transitive and Intransitive Verb
Implementation of Computer-Based Learning Media for Japanese Transitive and Intransitive Verb ‘Jita’
📚 Books worth reading
The unaccusativity puzzleArtemis Alexiadou, Elena Anagnostopoulou · 2004
a practical english grammarw. tidmarsh, b.a . london · 1882
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