16.“Do you know what ergativity is?” he asked her, referring to a property of some languages, including Hindi, by which a verb’s subject changes case when the verb is intransitive. 17.A verb is intransitive when it needs no object to complete its meaning; as, The crowd cheered. ...
transitive phrase pairs such as Taroo wa koe ga kareta/koa o karasita "taro got hoarse' and type of expression is a prototypical intransitive so far as satisfying the requirement for a spontaneous meaning, but cannot be a prototypical intransitive because of the requirement for two arguments. ...