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Remarks on transitivity1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Tasaku Tsunoda
Tasaku Tsunoda
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Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Letters, University of Nagoya
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Hopper & Thompson (1980) is an important contribution on the issue of transitivity, in which they propose that transitivity consists of the following ten semantic parameters:

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , September 1985 , pp. 385 - 396
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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