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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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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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Stylistic applicatives: a lens into the nature of anticausative SE
GlossaThis paper examines an understudied syntactic phenomenon in Chilean Spanish: stylistic applicatives. This construction involves the appearance of the form LE alongside dative clitics in marked anticausative contexts. The pattern displays several puzzling
Carlos Muñoz Pérez
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Universals of causative and anticausative verb formation and the spontaneity scale
, 2016 In this paper, I formulate and explain a number of universal generalizations about the formation of causative verbs (overtly marked verbs with causal meaning) and anticausative verbs (overtly marked verbs with noncausal meaning).
Martin Haspelmath
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Labile anticausatives in Jordanian Arabic
Lingua Posnaniensis, 2020 AbstractThis study examines the morpho-syntax of labile anticausative structures in Jordanian Arabic (JA). Although the transitive counterpart of anticausatives is marked via morphological affixes that reflect structural and lexical components in Classical Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic, a number of verbs involving causative alternation exhibit ...
Bassil Mashaqba +4 more
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Error asymmetry in causal and anticausal regression [PDF]
Behaviormetrika, 2017 It is generally difficult to make any statements about the expected prediction error in an univariate setting without further knowledge about how the data were generated. Recent work showed that knowledge about the real underlying causal structure of a data generation process has implications for various machine learning settings.
Blöbaum, Patrick +2 more
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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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Causative alternation in Persian complex predicates: a frame-based analysis [PDF]
, 2016 In this paper, a frame-based description of verbal polysemy is used to answer some questions concerning syntactic behavior and argument structures associated with complex predicates in Persian.
Ali Safari
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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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