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Unaccusativity

2012

Abstract My research is an attempt at suggesting a cross-linguistically valid definition of verbs characterized by unagentivity and affectedness such as “burn”, “die”, “sink”, “fall”, “slide”, etc., which according to the present analysis constitute the semantic core of unaccusativity. Both synchronic and diachronic approaches are followed. Various definitions have been attributed to these verbs (eventives, anticausatives, transformatives, inchoatives, decausatives). Although Perlmutter & Postal (1984) classify unaccusative verbs on the basis of their syntactic behavior, they also argue that the syntactic expression of arguments is always determinable on the basis of the meaning of the verb…

affectedness of subject activa tantum agentivity anticausatives deponentia ergatives eventives inactivemedia tantum mediality prototypical intransitives prototypical unaccusatives semantic transitivity split intransitivity syntactic transitivity unaccusative hypothesis unaccusatives unagentivity unergativesSettore L-LIN/01 - Glottologia E Linguistica
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Traces of earlier Proto-Indo-European and its active alignment in German: the impersonal passive constructions

2013

impersonal passive constructionwerden sein unaccusativity passive media tantumSettore L-LIN/01 - Glottologia E Linguistica
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