Monotransitive Constructions in Seereer

Abstract

As far as transitivity is concerned, Seereer verbs can be divided into three major types (with several subtypes for each): Strictly intransitive, strictly transitive and ambitransive or labile verbs. This paper will focus on one class of strictly transitive verbs namely monotransitive verbs including no voice mechanism. In section 2, I describe the syntactic diagnosis of transitivity, in section3, the coding properties of arguments, in section 4, I discuss the different groups within the monotransitive class, then I finally will analyse non-coded alternations in section 5.