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Publication details [#30736]

Voorst, Jan van. 1996. Some systematic differences between the Dutch, French and English transitive construction. Language Sciences 18 (1-2) : 227–245.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosslinguistic perspective | intensity | transitivity

Language as a subject

Dutch | English | French

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0388-0001

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

By distinguishing different levels of intensity in the relations that exist in transitivity between the entity that sets the event in motion and the process, and between the process and the object, it becomes possible to illuminate a number of puzzling phenomena in the area of transitivity in English, French and Dutch.