Syntactic function nab.t
transitive abstract noun, i.e. an abstract, typically deverbal, noun the concept of which involves an action directed at an object
Action nouns are often semantically as transitive as the verbs they derive from. The transitive verb "to murder Caesar" seems exactly as transitive as the corresponding noun "the murder of Caesar". (For "Caesar's murderer" see the category of transitive agent nouns "nt - ag". Note that "murder" can be considered as such, without any focus on who gets murdered. But even in that case, murder remains something that is construed as murder of someone. This is a preliminary collection of some nouns that would need to be considered in connection with transitivity of abstract nouns. One is tempted to subsume them under the straightforward nab category, but it seems useful to keep them separate for a while as a point of departure for a proper study of the phenomeon of transitivity in nouns.
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