Re: THEORY: transitivity

Sally Caves wrote:
> Nik, I thought "agent" was an acceptable term, as well, for
> volitionality
> as opposed to experientiality
Hmm, I dunno.  The way I use it is "subject of a transitive verb", just
as "patient" is "object of a transitive verb" and subject is "subject of
an intransitive verb".

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