triactantial

English

Etymology

tri- +‎ actantial

Adjective

triactantial (not comparable)

  1. (grammar) Having three actants (such as subject, direct object, and indirect object),
    • 1988, Julio Calvo Pérez, Perceptual and Topological Criteria in Linguistics Description, Publicacions de la Universitat de València
      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, […]
    • 2002, Winfried Boeder, Philologie, Typologie und Sprachstruktur: Festschrift für Winfried Boeder zum 65. Geburtstag, Peter Lang Pub Incorporated:
      ... 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 ...
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