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Subcat: subcategorization

Lexical feature of verbs. Some tagsets distinguish intransitive and transitive verbs. In many languages however, subcategorization of verbs is much more complex than this.

Intr: intransitive verb

A verb that does not take arguments other than the subject.

Examples: [en] to go

Tran: transitive verb

A verb that takes a direct (accusative) object as argument (in addition to the subject). These verbs can be passivized, then the direct object becomes the subject.

Examples: [en] to do something, to be done by somebody