Transitivity in grammar and discourse  

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Thompson, Sandra A. ; Hopper, P. J.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language (ada di JSTOR) vol. 56 no. 2 (Jun. 1980), page 251-299.
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Transitivity involves a number of components, only one of which is the presence of an object of the verb. These components are all concerned with the effectiveness with which an action takes place, e.g., the punctuality and telicity of the verb, the conscious activity of the agent, and the referentiality and degree of affectedness of the object. These components co-vary with one another in language after language, which suggests that Transitivity is a central property of language use. The grammatical and semantic prominence of Transitivity is shown to derive from its characteristic dis course function: high Transitivity is correlated with foregrounding, and low Transitivity with backgrounding..

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