Transitive verb

Transitive phrases, i.e. phrases containing transitive verbs, were first recognized by the stoics and from the Peripatetic school, but they probably referred to the whole phrase containing the transitive verb, not just to the verb. The advancements of the stoics were later developed by the philologists of the Alexandrian school. ==Lexical vis-à-vis grammatical information==

Traditionally, transitivity patterns are thought of as lexical information of the verb, but recent research in construction grammar and related theories has argued that transitivity is a grammatical rather than a lexical property, since the same verb very often appears with different transitivity in different contexts. Consider: • Does your dog bite? (no object) • The cat bit him. (one object) • Can you bite me off a piece of banana? (two objects) • The vase broke. (no object; anticausative construction) • She broke the toothpick. (one object) • Can you break me some toothpicks for my model castle? (two objects) • Stop me before I buy again. (no object; antipassive construction) • The man bought a ring. (one object) • The man bought his wife a ring. (two objects) In grammatical construction theories, transitivity is considered as an element of grammatical construction, rather than an inherent part of verbs. ==In English==

The following sentences exemplify transitive verbs in English. • We're going to need a bigger boat. • You need to fill in this form. • Hang on, I'll have it ready in a minute. • The professor took off his spectacles. ==Other languages==

In some languages, morphological features separate verbs based on their transitivity, which suggests this is a salient linguistic feature. For example, in Japanese: {{fs interlinear|lang=ja|indent=3 {{fs interlinear|lang=ja|indent=3 However, the definition of transitive verbs as those with one object is not universal, and is not used in grammars of many languages. In Hungarian Hungarian is sometimes misunderstood to have transitive and intransitive conjugation for all verbs, but there is really only one general conjugation. In present and future, there is a lesser used variant – a definite, or say emphatic conjugation form. It is used only when referring to a previous sentence, or topic, where the object was already mentioned. Logically the definite article as reference is used here—and due to verb emphasis (definite), word order changes to VO. • If one does not want to be definite, once can simply say: : — I see (a) house – (general) : — I see the house – (The house we were looking for) : — I eat (an) apple – (general) : — I eat the apple – (The one mom told me to) : — I drink wine – (general) : — I drink the wine – (That you offered me before) In English, one would say 'I do see the house', etc., stressing the verb – in Hungarian, the object is emphasized – but both mean exactly the same thing. In Pingelapese In the Pingelapese language, transitive verbs are used in one of four of the most common sentence structures. Transitive verbs according to this language have two main characteristics. These characteristics are action verbs and the sentence must contain a direct object. To elaborate, an action verb is a verb that has a physical action associated to its meaning. The sentence must contain a direct object meaning there must be a recipient of said verb. Two entities must be involved when using a transitive sentence. There is also a fixed word order associated with transitive sentences: subject-transitive verb-object. For example: Linda (Subject) e aesae (transitive verb) Adino (object) This sentence translates to, Linda knows Adino. • Entail a direct object (which is in the accusative, or, for a few verbs, instrumental case in non-negated sentences, and in the genitive case in negated sentences)OR • Can undergo passive transformation For example, the verb (to see) is transitive because it satisfies both conditions: (Mary sees John; is the accusative form of ) (John is seen by Mary) == See also ==