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Sujets causatifs et construction anticausative en français [PDF]
SHS Web of ConferencesLes verbes de changement d’état en français sont hétérogènes quant à leur capacité d’alterner entre constructions causative et anticausative. Alors que certains d’eux s’emploient rarement, voire jamais, comme anticausatifs (ex.
Steffen Heidinger
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Linguistics, 2023 Change-of-state verbs are heterogeneous with respect to their occurrence in the causative-anticausative alternation. While some of them are never used as anticausatives (e.g., destroy), others seem to largely favor the anticausative form (e.g., wither ...
Steffen Heidinger
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Spanish Anticausative Inherent Reciprocals and Syntactic Reciprocals with Se*
Studia Linguistica, 2021 Abstract Within the debate about the heterogeneity of unaccusative structures, the aim of this paper is to distinguish two types of Spanish marked anticausative inherent reciprocals (AIRs) from other syntactic reciprocals (SRs) with se. Several diagnostics show that AIRs such as mezclarse ‘get mixed’ are symmetric, unaccusative, telic, and show ...
Lucía Irene Quintana Hernández
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The oblique anticausative in Lithuanian
Baltistica, 2014 This article examines Lithuanian structures with accusative functioning as a subject. It pursues the idea that this accusative is of old origin. This hypothesis is based on a detailed comparison with Old Icelandic, revealing striking similarities within ...
Valgerður Bjarnadóttir
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On the distribution and interpretation of voice in Greek anticausatives [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 This paper provides experimental evidence in support of the view that Greek does not have three productive morphological classes of anticausative verbs, but only two: the class of verbs that bear non-active voice morphology and the class of verbs that ...
Evripidis Tsiakmakis +2 more
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The lexical semantics and syntax interface of anticausative alternations in Kiwoso
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2019 This paper examines argument alternation constructions in the Bantu language, Kiwoso. The data demonstrates that alternation is constrained by selectional properties of a root and its combination with different functional heads, which is language ...
Mallya, Aurelia
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Noncore datives in Basque and Spanish impersonal, passive and anticausative sentences
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic LinguisticsThis paper focuses on the Basque impersonal construction, i.e. a detransitivized configuration that can convey impersonal, passive and middle readings.
Imanol Suárez-Palma +1 more
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Drifting between passive and anticausative. True and alleged accent shifts in the history of Vedic-ya-presents [PDF]
Journal of Language Relationship, 2011 This paper focuses on the system of the Vedic present formations with the suffix ya- and middle inflexion, paying special attention to the attested accent patterns.
Kulikov, Leonid
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Low applicatives and optional se in Spanish non-anticausative intransitive verbs
Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas, 2013 This work revolves around a very peculiar set of Spanish verbs (‘caer[se]’, ‘morir[se]’, ‘tropezar[se]’ and ‘encallar[se]’), which optionally allow the clitic ‘se’ without any significant change of meaning.
Ismael Iván Teomiro García
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The Distribution and Function of Virtual Reflexive Constructions in English
Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2022 This paper sheds new light on the distributional and functional properties of virtual reflexive constructions (VRCs) in English (e.g., This problem solves ITSELF).
Masaki Yasuhara
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