Exploring Transitivity Alternations across Dialects: A Preliminary Approach

Even though the weight of classical conceptions of transitivity is still sensed, current trends in the study of such notion have revealed that clear-cut classifications of verbs as either transitive or intransitive should be abandoned. Indeed, it has been argued that far from belonging to closed sets, verbs can show transitive or intransitive uses depending on the context and the intention they ar…