In assigning transitivity to a lemma, it needs to be decided (and thus declared) whether this refers to semantic or syntactic transitivity.
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This is important because often many verbs which are semantically transitive can be used syntactically as intransitives (i.e. without an object/undergoer argument).
e.g.
I'm drinking water (syntactically and semantically transitive)
vs
I'm drinking (syntactically intransitive and semantically transitive)
Since it is tagged in it would imply syntactic, which if it has the ability to occur as syntactically intransitive (or vice versa) this would have to be done in sense which poses two problems:
a) an alternate syntactic transitivity doesn't necessarily change the sense (e.g. there is no difference in the core meaning of the work "drink" in the two sentences above)
In assigning transitivity to a lemma, it needs to be decided (and thus declared) whether this refers to semantic or syntactic transitivity. `
`
This is important because often many verbs which are semantically transitive can be used syntactically as intransitives (i.e. without an object/undergoer argument). e.g. I'm drinking water (syntactically and semantically transitive) vs I'm drinking (syntactically intransitive and semantically transitive)
Since it is tagged in it would imply syntactic, which if it has the ability to occur as syntactically intransitive (or vice versa) this would have to be done in sense which poses two problems:
a) an alternate syntactic transitivity doesn't necessarily change the sense (e.g. there is no difference in the core meaning of the work "drink" in the two sentences above)
b) which tag to use to encode this? (?)