Such narrative strategies in English and Chinese include seven rules: transformation of voice, transformation of transitivity and intransitivity, nominaliztion, diction, selection, reporting narrative and commenting, and implicit writing or understatement. 英、汉语中的这类叙事策略主要包括语态转换、及物/不物性转换、名物化、措辞、选择、转叙与评价、“不写之写”与低调陈述等七种规则(或“潜规则”)。
intransitivity
[ noun ] the grammatical relation created by an intransitive verb <noun.linkdef>