Fig. 4.
Frequency of transitive and intransitive subject arguments in S–V sentences. Intransitive subjects occur almost twice as much as transitive subjects. However, this pattern is not equally distributed in our data. In narratives, transitive subjects in S–V are quite rare (5 of 25); in sentences elicited by video clips, the two types of subject are common (14 transitive and 19 intransitive).