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Issues of Transitivity and Intransitivity in Grammar, Morphology, and Semantics • Author: Mahmoud Al-Hassan • 2020
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The issue of transitivity and intransitivity holds special importance in grammatical studies due to its close connection with a fundamental principle of grammatical thought among grammarians, which is the reliance on the theory of the 'Amil (governor). In one of its aspects, transitivity and intransitivity are merely descriptions of a verb's action on the direct object; a verb that acts is transitive, and one that does not is intransitive. Grammarians may have addressed this issue in chapters dedicated to transitivity and intransitivity—as Sibawayh did—or discussed it within the study of verbs or direct objects. However, the collection of issues related to transitivity and intransitivity is found scattered throughout comprehensive grammatical works.