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Record W1936160617 · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511778001.022

Bitransitive Verbs, Ambitransitive Verbs

2011· book-chapter· en· W1936160617 on OpenAlexaff
Michel Launey, Christopher S. Mackay

Bibliographic record

VenueCambridge University Press eBooks · 2011
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicLinguistics and Cultural Studies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsModal verbLinguisticsComputer scienceNatural language processingPsychologyVerbPhilosophy

Abstract

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Introduction to Bitransitive Verbs In English, there are verbs that take two objects, a direct and an indirect object: ‘I gave the waiter a tip’, ‘I cooked him dinner’. The direct object is the thing (seldom a person) that the verb directly acts upon. The indirect object is usually an animate being for or to whom the action is done. The indirect object can be expressed in two ways. Both the direct and indirect objects sometimes appear a simple nouns or pronouns, and in this case, the indirect object precedes the direct one (as in the examples given). The indirect object can also be indicated with the prepositions ‘for’ or ‘to’, in which case it follows the direct object: ‘I gave a tip to the waiter’ or ‘I cooked dinner for him’. In terms of Nahuatl grammar, we might term the indirect object the beneficiary (this term is to be understood broadly, as the indirect object may be harmed rather than benefited by the action). In these instances, the Nahuatl verb can take two objects, one representing the regular direct object and the other the beneficiary. Such verbs are called bitransitive . Unlike the case with English, where word order clearly distinguishes which is which when the beneficiary appears without the preposition, the bitransitive verbs in Nahuatl make no such formal distinction. In the natural order of things, the direct object will be inanimate and the beneficiary animate, but this is by no means always the case.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.013
Threshold uncertainty score0.043

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0020.007
Scholarly communication0.0050.010
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0130.005

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.046
GPT teacher head0.178
Teacher spread0.133 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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