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triactantial

triactantial adjective: having three actants (such as subject, direct object, and indirect object),.

Adjective

triactantial (not comparable)

  1. Having three actants (such as subject, direct object, and indirect object),
    • S- A Juan se le permite venir
      F- On permet Jean de venir
      E- John is allowed to come by
      G- Johannes ist erlaubt vorbeizukommen
      All of these expressions contain an explicit triactantial (3-place) performative to allow, […]1988, Julio Calvo Pérez, Perceptual and Topological Criteria in Linguistics Description, Publicacions de la Universitat de València
    • ... are my proposed semantic classes of Georgian deponents, with examples of each type : TYPE I . base trivalent transitive, no relative DV
      The first group comprises verbs of giving and communicating, that is, fundamentally triactantial verbs ...2002, Winfried Boeder, Philologie, Typologie und Sprachstruktur: Festschrift für Winfried Boeder zum 65. Geburtstag, Peter Lang Pub Incorporated

Origin of triactantial

From tri- + actantial.

Questions about triactantial

What does triactantial mean?
Triactantial means having three actants (such as subject, direct object, and indirect object),.
What part of speech is triactantial?
Triactantial is an adjective.

Words near triactantial in the dictionary

  1. triacrylate
  2. triacrylates
  3. triacs
  4. triacsin C
  5. triact
  6. triactantial
  7. triactinal
  8. triactine
  9. triactines
  10. triactinomyxon
  11. triactinomyxons

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