A transitive clause is a °clause which contains two °arguments that are coded in the same way as the arguments of physical-effect verbs ('kill', 'break').
transitive construction (a.k.a. monotransitive construction) (CXN) = the construction used to express the agent (A role) and the patient (P role) of the predicated biva- lent breaking event when the agent is more salient than the patient and the breaking event is a single, completed event. Example: Jack broke the window is an instance of the exemplar (the single “most prototypical” example) of the transitive construction. (Sections 6.1.2, 6.2.1, 7.3.3)