indirect transitive
adj1
Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Of a verb Taking an indirect object.
- French indirect transitive verbs, i.e. verbs which take an indirect object, cannot be passive.1999, Monique L'Huillier, Advanced French Grammar, →ISBN, page 245:
- It is common, not only for perception verbs but also for verbs that convey a metaphorically directional action with partially affected objects (especially animate objects), to display canonical indirect transitive constructions.2008, Mark Donohue, Søren Wichmann, The Typology of Semantic Alignment, →ISBN, page 209:
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- Overall children's performance on direct transitive event (e.g. girl crumpling a paper) was not significantly different from their performance on the indirect transitive event (e.g. man putting powder in a liquid that changes its color).2008, Hindi-speaking Two-year-old Children's Development of Verb Constructions, →ISBN: