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- not comparablegrammarHaving three actants (such as subject, direct object, and indirect object),
... are my proposed semantic classes of Georgian deponents, with examples of each type : TYPE I . base trivalent transitive, no relative DV The first group comprises verbs of giving and communicating, that is, fundamentally triactantial verbs ...
2002, Winfried Boeder, Philologie, Typologie und Sprachstruktur: Festschrift für Winfried Boeder zum 65. Geburtstag, Peter Lang Pub Incorporated1 more example
1988, Julio Calvo Pérez, Perceptual and Topological Criteria in Linguistics Description, Publicacions de la Universitat de València S- A Juan se le permite venir F- On permet Jean de venir E- John is allowed to come by G- Johannes ist erlaubt vorbeizukommen All of these expressions contain an explicit triactantial (3-place) performative to allow, […]
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triactantial. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/triactantial
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