Mario Pino

1. Scatter
Transitivity: Mono transitive; could be also intransitive.

- Transitive: The high pitch noise scattered the dogs.

- Intransitive: The people scattered

Arguments’ thematic roles:

- Transitive: ‘the dogs’  patient

2. Emit
Transitivity: Mono transitive

- Transitive: The plant emits radiation

Aguments’ thematic roles: ‘the plant’ is the agent or location: ‘radiation’ could be
instrument?

3. Exert
Transitivity: Mono transitive (could it be complex transitive?)

- Monotransitive: The moon exerts gravitation on the sea.

Arguments’ thematic roles: ‘The moon” is an agent, ‘gravitation’ is the instrument, and
‘on the sea’ is the patient.

Question: in the case I use exert in the following form: I exert myself to understand it.
What kind of transitivity does it has? Would that be ditransitive?

4. Sinter
Transitivity: Mono transitive or intransitive.

- Monotransitive: They sintered gold dust into ingots.

- Intransitive: The rust sintered.

Arguments’ thematic roles: ‘They’ is the agent, ‘gold’ is the theme and ‘ingots’ is the
goal

5. Accrue
Transitivity: Transitive or intransitive

- Transitive: He accrued useful knowledge in medicine through his career.

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- Intransitive: I accrued vacations

Arguments’ thematic roles: ‘He’ agent, ‘in medicine’ theme; ‘vacations’ theme