RT Book, Section T1 Transitivity and verb classes A1 Garcia-Miguel Gallego, José María A2 John Benjamins K1 5705.13 Sintaxis, Análisis Sintáctico K1 5705.08 Semántica AB The received concept of transitivity includes several semantic properties based on the idea that transitive clauses express an action performed by an agent on a patient, and suggest that transitive syntactic structures typically refer to concrete actions. Arguably, a semantic characterization of syntactic transitivity requires independent definitions of semantic and syntactic transitivity and needs more empirical support. This paper is an initially quantitative exploration of sematic verb types and transitive syntactic structures in a Spanish corpus-based syntactic-semantic database (ADESSE) and in a typological valency patterns database (ValPal), and it somewhat calls into question the hypothesis that transitive syntactic structures are more strongly associated with verbs expressing concrete actions performed by an agent than with verbs expressing certain kinds of mental states. SN 9789027240156 YR 2015 FD 2015 LK http://hdl.handle.net/11093/900 UL http://hdl.handle.net/11093/900 LA eng NO En E. Barrajón López, J.L. Cifuentes Honrubia, S. Rodríguez Rosique (Eds.) Verb Classes and Aspect - vol. 9 (288-311) DS Investigo RD 22-sep-2023