International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Culture Available online at https://sloap.org/journals/index.php/ijllc/ Vol. 8, No. 3, May 2022, pages: 67-75 ISSN: 2455-8028 https://doi.org/10.21744/ijllc.v8n3.2076 67 Argument Structure of Transition and Transfer Verbs Ni Luh Putu Ariasih a I Nyoman Sedeng b Article history: Abstract Submitted: 27 February 2021 Revised: 18 March 2022 Accepted: 09 April 2022 This study entitled Argument Structure of Transition and Transfer Verbs. It focused on the argument structure which maps the grammatical relation and the semantic roles. This study aimed to recognize the grammatical relations of transition and transfer verbs of slides verbs arguments and to explain the semantic roles of transition and transfer verbs of slides verbs arguments. This study is library research. The data of this study were collected from Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) which was related to transition and transfer verbs. The documentation method and note-taking technique were applied in collecting the data. In analyzing the data, the descriptive- qualitative method was applied. The data were described and explained based on the theory of argument structure and the theory of transition and transfer verbs. Based on the analysis, the grammatical relation operated within transition and transfer verbs with the class of slide verb involve subject, object and oblique. Verb bounce, float, move, roll and slide can be constructed with SV, SVO, SV OBL, SVO OBL and SVO OBL OBL. Furthermore, the structure SVO OBL OBL only appears in the verb of move. The semantic roles that appear in clauses of the verbs bounce, float, move, roll and slide are agent, theme, location, source, path and goal. Furthermore, each clause can be categorized as clauses applying transition or transfer verb. The clauses of which the construction are SV, SV OBL, and SV OBL OBL, the verbs are considered as transition because there is no causative argument which becomes the causer of the movement. On the other hand, the clauses of which the construction are SVO, SVO OBL and SVO OBL OBL, the verbs are considered as transfer because the verb has causative argument which becomes the causer of the movement. Keywords: argument structure; grammatical relations; semantic roles; slide verbs; transition and transfer verbs; International journal of linguistics, literature and culture © 2022. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Corresponding author: Ni Luh Putu Ariasih, Udayana University, Denpasar, Indonesia. Email address: putuariasih22@gmail.com a Udayana University, Denpasar, Indonesia b Udayana University, Denpasar, Indonesia