Meanings
adjectiveuntransitive (not comparable)
- not comparableNot transitive.
The attempt at a fundamental structural relation between transitive and untransitive verbs yields the following structural relations based on mereological features […]
2010, Patrick Brandt, Marco Garcia García, Transitivity: Form, Meaning, Acquisition, and Processing, page 32
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