the construction used to express the agent ( A role) and the patient ( P role) of the predicated - bivalent 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)