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  2. Active–stative alignment - Wikipedia

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    In linguistic typology, active–stative alignment (also split intransitive alignment or semantic alignment) is a type of morphosyntactic alignment in which the sole argument ("subject") of an intransitive clause (often symbolized as S) is sometimes marked in the same way as an agent of a transitive verb (that is, like a subject such as "I" or "she" in English) but other times in the same way ...

  3. Transitivity (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    Transitivity is a linguistics property that relates to whether a verb, participle, or gerund denotes a transitive object. It is closely related to valency , which considers other arguments in addition to transitive objects.

  4. ACT (test) - Wikipedia

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    The ACT (/ eɪ s iː t iː /; originally an abbreviation of American College Testing) [10] is a standardized test used for college admissions in the United States. It is administered by ACT, Inc., a for-profit organization of the same name. [10] The ACT test covers four academic skill areas: English, mathematics, reading, and scientific ...

  5. Transitive verb - Wikipedia

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    Transitive phrases, i.e. phrases containing transitive verbs, were first recognized by the stoics and from the Peripatetic school, but they probably referred to the whole phrase containing the transitive verb, not just to the verb. [10] [11] The advancements of the stoics were later developed by the philologists of the Alexandrian school. [10]

  6. Preference (economics) - Wikipedia

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    In order to have transitive preferences, a person, player, or agent that prefers choice option A to B and B to C must prefer A to C. The most discussed logical property of preferences are the following: A≽B ∧ B≽C → A≽C (transitivity of weak preference) A~B ∧ B~C → A~C (transitivity of indifference)

  7. Speech act - Wikipedia

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    For much of the history of the positivist philosophy of language, language was viewed primarily as a way of making factual assertions, and the other uses of language tended to be ignored, as Austin states at the beginning of Lecture 1, "It was for too long the assumption of philosophers that the business of a 'statement' can only be to 'describe' some state of affairs, or to 'state some fact ...

  8. List of glossing abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Glosses for case should be used instead, e.g. ERG or NOM for A. [8] Morphosyntactic abbreviations are typically typeset as full capitals even when small caps are used for glosses, [9] and include A (agent of transitive verb), B (core benefactive), [10] D or I (core dative / indirect object), [11] E (experiencer of sensory verb), [12] G or R ...

  9. Transitive alignment - Wikipedia

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    That is, in the past tense (or perhaps perfective aspect), the agent and object of a transitive verb are marked with the same case ending, while the subject of an intransitive verb is not marked. In the present tense, the object of the transitive verb is marked, the other two roles are not – that is, a typical nominative–accusative ...