Abstract In some Bantu languages of western Uganda, we find an interesting construction in which typical transitive verbs such as “to cut (a tree),” “to bend (a wire),” “to smoke (meat),” “to tear (paper),” “to open (a door),” etc., are used intransitively, without any additional suffixes such as passive and neuter. I call this construction the syntactically intransitive construction of transitive verbs, and illustrate it with examples from Tooro, a Bantu language of western Uganda. However, two important restrictions apply regarding the use of this construction. One is that among transitive verbs, only those causing a change of state that take human agents and inanimate objects may be used intransitively, with inanimate objects being promoted to the subject position. The second restriction is that this construction may only be used with the perfective ending -ire/-ere. This last point indicates that this construction is distinct from typical labile verb constructions that, in principle, occur in all tenses, aspects and moods. The analysis of the intransitive construction of transitive verbs inevitably raises the issue of the stative nature of perfective actions.

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论乌干达西部班图语Tooro中及物动词的不及物动词用法

摘要在乌干达西部的一些班图语中，我们发现了一种有趣的结构，其中包含典型的及物动词，例如“割（树）”，“弯（线）”，“抽烟（肉）”，“撕裂”。 （纸），“要打开（一扇门）”等字词在不经过传递的情况下使用，没有任何其他后缀，例如被动和中性。我将此构造称为及物动词的句法非及物构造，并用乌干达西部班图语Tooro的示例进行说明。但是，关于此构造的使用有两个重要限制。一个是在及物动词中，只有那些引起状态变化的，带人类特工和无生命物体的动词才可以不及物动地使用，而无生命物体则被提升到主体位置。第二个限制是该构造只能与完美结尾-ire / -ere一起使用。最后一点表明，这种结构与通常在所有时态，方面和语气中都存在的典型不稳定动词结构不同。对及物动词的不及物结构的分析不可避免地提出了完美动作的状态性质问题。