Agrammatic use of a transitive verb in the language pattern объяснять/объяснить о чем-либо proves that a change in the syntactic dependence results in the transition from the syntactic use to a more semantic use. A similar example is the use of such verbs as рассказывать/рассказать что-либо/ о чем-либо. Here, the choice of the model is dictated by the semantic characteristics of the language situation: the relationships between the transitive model and the intransitive one are those of “panorama vs. focus”.