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A competition-based analysis of French anticausatives

Lingvisticae Investigationes, 2017
AbstractSome long-standing questions surrounding anticausatives in languages like French include whether the morphological marking (presence/absence ofse) correlates with interpretational differences and/or different syntax. We examine the three anticausatives classes (optionalse, obligatoryse, nose) in three aspectual contexts and formulate a ...
Géraldine Legendre, Paul Smolensky
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Passives and anticausatives in Vedic Sanskrit

2022
AbstractCertain Vedic Sanskrit middle-voice verbs in -ya- have long received special attention for exhibiting accent variation between root and suffix. Various accounts for their behaviour and their origin have been proposed, and according to a recent analysis these verbs are anticausatives, contrasting with passives, and that suffix accent is ...
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Anticausatives in Sinhala: involitivity and causer suppression

Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2012
Many recent theories of causative/inchoative alternations adopt an anticausativization analysis, wherein the inchoative is derived from the causative via some operation that eliminates the causer argument from a verb’s argument structure, provided the causer is semantically unspecified for agentivity (Levin and Rappaport Hovav 1995; Chierchia 2004 ...
John Beavers, Cala Zubair
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Acquisitional patterns of Spanish anticausative se

Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2015
The acquisition of the Spanish morphemesehas proved to be problematic for L2 learners both because of its polyfunctionality and because of the restrictions regarding the types of predicates with which it can combine. This paper sheds light on this problem by focusing on a specific type ofse(anticausativese; e.g.,El jarrón se rompió‘The vase broke’) and
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Reflexively marked anticausatives are not semantically reflexive

2015
We discuss the recent proposal by Koontz-Garboden (2009) (cf. also Chierchia 2004) that reflexively marked anticausative verbs (in Romance languages and beyond) are semantically reflexive. This proposal predicts that a sentence headed by a lexical causative verb should not entail the sentence headed by the reflexively marked anticausative counterpart ...
Florian Schäfer, Margot Vivanco
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The L2 Acquisition of English Anticausative Structures by L1 Spanish Speakers

Exploring Interfaces, 2019
Mónica Cabrera
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Causalness and the encoding of the causative–anticausative alternation in French and Spanish1

Journal of Linguistics, 2015
Steffen Heidinger
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Anticausativization and Anticausative in Mandarin Chinese: A Conceptual Approach

Korea Journal of Chinese Linguistics
Youjeong Oh
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Old Church Slavonic Roots of the Present-Day Polish Anticausative System

, 2016
Anna Malicka-Kleparska
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Acquisitional patterns of Spanish anticausative se: The end of the road

, 2015
Inmaculada Gómez Soler
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