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transitive construction
a.k.a. (mono)transitive (construction)
the construction used to express the agent (A role) and the patient (P role) of the predicated bivalent breaking event when the agent is more salient than the patient and the breaking event is a single, completed event. Example: Jack broke the window is an instance of the exemplar (the single most prototypical example) of the transitive construction. (Sections 6.1.2, 6.2.1, 7.3.3)
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Construction
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