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The noncausal/causal alternation in Swahili
Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2022 Haspelmath (1993) investigates types of noncausal/causal alternation and examines 31 verb pairs in 21 languages, including Swahili, a Bantu language spoken in East Africa.
Nobuko Yoneda
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Cross-linguistic sources of anticausative markers
Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads, 2022 The (anti)causative alternation, that is, the alternation whereby languages contrast intransitive verbs expressing spontaneous events with transitive ones expressing externally caused events, has been the object of extensive language-specific and cross ...
Guglielmo Inglese
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On noncausal/causal alternations in Tima (Nuba Mountains, Sudan)
Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2022 Tima, a language spoken in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan, uses three derivation markers (with various allomorphs) to either increase or decrease the valency of the verb. Middle voice and antipassive marking are used to reduce the valency. Causative marking
Gertrud Schneider-Blum
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Basic Characteristics and Aspectual Properties of Croatian ObjExp Verbs
Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2021 This paper discusses the basic characteristics of ObjExp verbs in Croatian (thematic roles, argument structure, anticausative variant, aspect of the verb), with special attention paid to the aspectual properties of such verbs.
Matea Birtić, Ivana Brač
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Non-Pronominal Intransitive Verb Variants with Property Interpretation: A Characterization
Languages, 2023 In this paper, we study a syntactic construction that has received little attention in the study of Spanish grammar (La masa de pizza congela perfectamente, ‘Pizza dough freezes perfectly’).
Elena Felíu Arquiola
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The gradual acquisition of clitic “se” in Spanish L2
Topics in Linguistics, 2016 In this study, we analyse the nature of clitic “se” and low applicatives in Spanish L2 through the study of the non-native acquisition of this clitic by L1 English adult learners.
Escobar Linda, Teomiro Ismael
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A case for two voices in Old Church Slavonic – reflexively marked OCS verbs
LingBaW, 2015 Old Church Slavonic data manifest significant similarities in the distribution and formal properties of anticausatives, reflexives, subject experiencer verbs, statives, and reciprocals, while their semantics may also be viewed as partly uniform.
Anna Malicka-Kleparska
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The noncausal/causal alternation in the Western Serengeti languages
Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2022 This paper takes a look at the noncausal/causal alternation in a sample of about 30 verb pairs in the Western Serengeti languages (WS) Ikoma, Ishenyi, Nata and Ngoreme, spoken in the Mara region of Tanzania.
Antti Laine +2 more
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Supplementary materials of "Anticausatives in Classical Armenian"
, 2022 Petr Kocharov
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Inkoatibo/arazle alternantzia euskaraz eratortzen [PDF]
Fontes Linguae Vasconum, 2018 Lan honetan, euskarazko aditzen inkoatibo/arazle alternantzia arakatu dugu. Proposa- tzen dugun analisian, inkoatibo/arazle alternantzia Boza alternantzia da: Bozak es- pezifikatzaile bat islatzen duenean, aldaera arazlea sortzen da; bestalde, Bozak argu-
Ane Berro +2 more
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