DIZIONARIO GENERALE PLURILINGUE
DEL LESSICO METALINGUISTICO



Lemmastatic subject
Categoria grammaticaleN
Linguainglese
SiglaSapir (1921)
TitoloLanguage
Sinonimiintransitive subject (inglese) 
Rinviiactive subject (inglese) 
Traduzioni 
Citazioni

Numerous languages differentiate clearly between active subject and static subject ('I go and I kill him' as distinct from 'I sleep', 'I am good', 'I am killed') [...] The intransitive or static subjects may or may not be identical with the object of the transitive verb.
- Sapir (1921), Pag. 109