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Transitive vs Unergative - What's the difference?

transitive | unergative | Antonyms |

Transitive is an antonym of unergative.


As adjectives the difference between transitive and unergative

is that transitive is making a (l) or passage while unergative is (linguistics|of a verb) intransitive and having an agent as its subject.

As a noun unergative is

(linguistics) an unergative verb.

transitive

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Making a (l) or passage.
  • * (rfdate) , The Poet :
    • For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive , and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.
  • Affected by (l) of signification.
  • *
    • By far the greater part of the transitive or derivative applications of words depend on casual and unaccountable caprices of the feelings or the fancy.
  • (grammar, of a verb) Taking an (l) or objects.
    • The English verb "to notice" is a transitive verb, because we say things like "She noticed a problem".
  • * (rfdate) , Orthodoxy :
    • Men have tried to turn "revolutionise" from a transitive to an intransitive verb.
  • (set theory, of a relation on a set) Having the property that if an element x'' is related to ''y'' and ''y'' is related to ''z'', then ''x'' is necessarily related to ''z .
    • "Is an ancestor of" is a transitive relation: if Alice is an ancestor of Bob, and Bob is an ancestor of Carol, then Alice is an ancestor of Carol.
  • Such that, for any two elements of the acted-upon set, some group element maps the first to the second.

    • Antonyms

    * (l) * (l), (l)

    Derived terms

    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)

    See also

    * (l) * (l)

    References

    * ----

    unergative

    English

    (Unergative verb)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (linguistics, of a verb) Intransitive and having an agent as its subject.

    • Antonyms

    * unaccusative * transitive

    Hyponyms

    * intransitive

    Related terms

    * ergative

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (linguistics) An unergative verb.
  • * 1998 , Eloise Jelinek, Voice and Transitivity as Functional Projections in Yaqui , in Miriam Butt and Wilhelm Geuder, eds., “The Projection of Arguments”
    • 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

    * unaccusative

    References

    * “unergative verb” in the Lexicon of Linguistics (Utrecht institute of Linguistics)