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The C△G and Polish causative/anticausative deadjectival verbs
Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of AmericaPolish inchoative deadjectival verb forms have been noted in Bobaljik (2012) to exemplify a potentially problematic paradigm for the Comparative-Change-of-State Generalization described within the same work.
J. Dees, Katie VanDyne, A. Romaniuk
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Unaccusative Constructions in the Bakhtyiyari Dialect of Masjed Soleyman [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2014 Unaccusative constructions are one place predicates and their single core argument, like a passive predicate, functions as un undergoer rather than actor.
Vali Rezaei, Farkhonde Shojaei
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Agent, causer and instrument PPs in Greek : implications for verbal structure [PDF]
, 2008 In this paper we investigate the distribution of PPs related to external arguments (agent, causer, instrument, causing event) in Greek. We argue that their distribution supports an analysis, according to which agentive/instrument and causer PPs are ...
Alexiadou, Artemis +1 more
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Reflexive derivations in Thulung [PDF]
, 2016 This paper is under copyright and the publisher shloud be contacted for permission to re-use or re-print the material in any form.International audienceThulung Rai, an endangered Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Eastern Nepal, presents two derivational ...
Lahaussois, Aimée
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The Syntactic Status of Subject Clitics: A Problem from Venetan SE‐Constructions
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 144-167, March 2026.Abstract This article reopens the discussion on the syntax of subject clitics (SCLs) in Venetan dialects by providing a problematic piece of data and outlining its theoretical consequences. New evidence from se‐constructions in Alto Polesine Venetan (APV) shows that SCLs resist a unitary categorisation even within the same dialect group: in varieties ...
Marco Fioratti, Leonardo Russo Cardona
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Stative Morpheme In Shimakonde, An Anticausative Morpheme?
, 2017 Tis paper aims to describe the syntax of the constructions that present the verbal extensions {-ik-} and {-uk-} and their allomorphs in Shimakonde, a Bantu language classifed as P23 in the Guthrie classifcation (GUTHRIE 1967-71).
Ronaldo Rodrigues de Paula
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European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 644-658, September 2024.Abstract The paper defends a version of the view that agency is a causal power, the “causing view.” After sketching the view, and explaining how it differs from its rivals, various challenges are assessed. A family of objections says that causing change is neither necessary nor sufficient for acting.
Maria Alvarez
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Causativity in zero and overt nominalizations: An experimental study [PDF]
Linguistica PragensiaWe experimentally evaluate three patterns of deverbal nominalizations derived by means of zero, -ing and Romance suffixes (i.e., -(at)ion, -ment, and -ance) in English as to whether they can express causativity and anticausativity like their base verbs ...
Gianina Iordăchioaia, Jeannique Darby
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Processing of Transitivity Alternations and Frequency-Based Accounts in Greek Adult Language
Languages, 2022 The processing and resolution of syntactically ambiguous structures is accounted for by serial autonomous and multiple constraint satisfaction models differently.
Georgia Fotiadou
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PP licensing in nominalizations [PDF]
, 2008 In this paper we compare the distribution of PPs introducing external arguments in nominalizations with PPs introducing external arguments in the verbal domain.
Alexiadou, Artemis +2 more
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