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The causative–anticausative alternation in Jordanian Arabic (JA)

Lingua, 2019
The current study aims to provide a description of the causative-anticausative alternation in Jordanian Arabic (henceforth, JA), focusing on the structural, morphological and semantic characteristics of causative and anticausative verbs.
Aseel Zibin
exaly   +2 more sources

Passive and anticausative constructions: A new perspective to morphosyntax and lexical semantic interfaces

Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 2019
There is a growing body of literature that recognises the relationship between verbal argument alternations such as passives and anticausatives. However, alternation types in Bantu languages have been treated in a rather fragmented way.
Aurelia Mallya, Marianna Visser
exaly   +2 more sources

Passive to anticausative through impersonalization

Studies in Language Companion Series, 2011
Vedic Sanskrit and other Indo-European languages attest a typologically remarkable change of passives to anticausatives. This semantic development is attested, foremost, for passives of several verbs of perception and knowledge (knowledge transfer) obviously, according to the scenario ‘Y is seen (known etc.) by smb.’ → ‘Y is seen (known etc.) [by smb.]’
Leonid Kulikov
exaly   +6 more sources

Scalar Constraints on Anticausative SE: The Aspectual Hypothesis Revisited

Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 2021
Margot Vivanco
exaly   +2 more sources

The persistence of labile verbs in the French causative-anticausative alternation

Linguistics, 2014
Steffen Heidinger
exaly   +2 more sources

Anticausative and passive in Vedic

Perspectives on Language Structure and Language Change, 2019
In a 2001 publication on reanalysis and linguistic change, Henning Andersen states that “(i)t is not clear yet what constitutes structural ambiguity in surface realizations; this remains a question for the future”. As a tribute to Henning, this paper examines a case of (near-)systematic structural ambiguity regarding Vedic passives and anticausatives ...
H. H. Hock
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Anticausative derivations (and other valency alternations) in French

Probus, 2010
Edit Doron
exaly   +2 more sources

The Anticausative Alternation in Italian

, 2011
Investigation of the contraints on anticausativization in Italian, in relation to the role played by the aspectual template of verbs, the inherent-relational propeties of their arguments and the contribution of the inherent meaning of the verb, the root, to the different morphosyntactic realizations of this construction.
Michela Cennamo, Elisabetta Jezek
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

3. Agents in anticausative and decausative compound verbs

2016
Taro Kageyama
exaly   +2 more sources

Anticausatives: Against reflexivization

Lingua, 2011
Anticausative (unaccusative) verbs are not formed by a reflexivization operation. Contrary to claims advanced in recent studies, there is no evidence that they involve a Cause ingredient either in their lexical semantic representation or in the syntax. A series of arguments show that.
Julia Horvath, Tal Siloni
exaly   +2 more sources