Editing Transitive verb (section)

==Lexical vis-à-vis grammatical information==
Traditionally, transitivity patterns are thought of as [[lexicon|lexical]] information of the verb, but recent research in [[construction grammar]] and related theories has argued that transitivity is a grammatical rather than a lexical property, since the same verb very often appears with different transitivity in different contexts.{{citation needed|date=June 2014}} Consider:

*Does your dog ''bite''? (no object)
*The cat ''bit'' him. (one object)
*Can you ''bite'' me off a piece of banana? (two objects)
*The vase ''broke''. (no object; [[anticausative]] construction)
*She ''broke'' the toothpick. (one object)
*Can you ''break'' me some toothpicks for my model castle? (two objects)
*Stop me before I ''buy'' again. (no object; [[Antipassive voice|antipassive]] construction)
*The man ''bought'' a ring. (one object)
*The man ''bought'' his wife a ring. (two objects)

In grammatical construction theories, transitivity is considered as an element of [[grammatical construction]], rather than an inherent part of verbs.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Transitive and intransitive verb |url=https://grammarerror.com/tags/transitive-and-intransitive-verb |access-date=2023-11-09 |website=grammarerror.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/transitive|title=TRANSITIVE {{!}} meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary|website=dictionary.cambridge.org|language=en|access-date=2019-02-24}}</ref>