Universal #904

Legacy number: 904

 Number  901
 Original  The more firmly individuated (definite, human, etc.) the agent and the object and/or the more complete (semantically pregnant, perfective, real. etc.) the process, the greater the chances the sentence will adopt the more grammatically transitive construction.

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 Standardized  The more firmly individuated (definite, human, etc.) the agent and the object and/or the more complete (semantically pregnant, perfective, real. etc.) the process, the greater the chances the sentence will adopt the more grammatically transitive construction.

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 Keywords  definiteness, animacy, perfective, affectedness, transitivity
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  languages surveyed in Lazard 1986b, Lazard 1991, Lazard 1995, Lazard 1998
 Source  Lazard 1986b: 63, Lazard 1991: 45, Lazard 1995: 202-203, Lazard 1998: 237

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Discussion
Notes
Combines #46 and #899. A commonly made claim.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Combines <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=46"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0"> and <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=899"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">. A commonly made claim.