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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Semantic roles and the causative-anticausative alternation: evidence from French change-of-state verbs [PDF]
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 ...
Richard Huyghe
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Spanish Anticausative Inherent Reciprocals and Syntactic Reciprocals with Se* [PDF]
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 ...
Lucia Quintana Hernández
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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.
Richard Huyghe
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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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Anticausatives are semantically reflexive in Norwegian, but not in English
Glossa, 2016 In this paper we will discuss cross-linguistic variation in semantic entailment patterns in causative alternations. Previous work has probed this issue with data from elicited semantic judgements on paired linguistic forms, often involving linguistic ...
Antonella Sorace +4 more
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Derivation of verbs attested in the old Lithuanian scripts: infixed and sta-stem anticausatives
Lietuvių Kalba, 2020 The article presents the analysis of infixed and sta-stem verbs opposed to ia-stem verbs attested in the old Lithuanian scripts, investigating the opposition causative/anticausative.
Dalia Pakalniškienė
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Anticausatives are weak scalar expressions, not reflexive expressions
Glossa, 2016 We discuss conceptual and empirical arguments from Germanic, Romance and Slavic languages against an analysis treating anticausative verbs as derived from their lexical causative counterparts under reflexivization. Instead, we defend the standard account
Florian Schäfer, Margot Vivanco
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Anticausatives compete but do not differ in meaning: a French case study [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2014 In French as in many other Romance and Germanic languages, verbs undergoing the causative/anticausative alternation divide into two morphological and three distributional classes.
Martin Fabienne, Schäfer Florian
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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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