Intransitive vs Unaccusative - What's the difference?
intransitive | unaccusative | Hyponyms |
(grammar, of a verb) Not transitive: not having, or not taking, a direct object.
(rare) Not transitive or passing further; kept; detained.
(linguistics, of a verb) Intransitive and having an experiencer as its subject, that is, the (syntactic) subject is not a (semantic) agent.
(linguistics) An unaccusative verb.
* 1998 , Eloise Jelinek, Voice and Transitivity as Functional Projections in Yaqui , in Miriam Butt and Wilhelm Geuder, eds., “The Projection of Arguments”
Intransitive is a hyponym of unaccusative.
As adjectives the difference between intransitive and unaccusative
is that intransitive is (grammar|of a verb) not transitive: not having, or not taking, a direct object while unaccusative is (linguistics|of a verb) intransitive and having an experiencer as its subject, that is, the (syntactic) subject is not a (semantic) agent.As a noun unaccusative is
(linguistics) an unaccusative verb.intransitive
English
Adjective
(-)- The word "drink" is a transitive verb in "they drink wine", but an intransitive one in "they drink often."
- And then it is for the image's sake and so far is intransitive ; but whatever is paid more to the image is transitive and passes further. — Jeremy Taylor.
Antonyms
* transitiveSee also
* ergative ----unaccusative
English
(Unaccusative verb)Adjective
(-)Antonyms
* unergative * transitiveHyponyms
* intransitiveNoun
(en noun)- We have seen that Unergatives and Unaccusatives' differ in 1) permitting the derivation of an Impersonal Passive, and 2) in licensing purpose clauses, since Unergatives have active subjects, and ' Unaccusatives do not.
Antonyms
* unergativeReferences
*“unaccusative verb” in the Lexicon of Linguistics(Utrecht institute of Linguistics)