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On the distribution and interpretation of voice in Greek anticausatives [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 This paper provides experimental evidence in support of the view that Greek does not have three productive morphological classes of anticausative verbs, but only two: the class of verbs that bear non-active voice morphology and the class of verbs that ...
Tsiakmakis E +2 more
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The Distribution and Function of Virtual Reflexive Constructions in English [PDF]
Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2022 This paper sheds new light on the distributional and functional properties of virtual reflexive constructions (VRCs) in English (e.g., This problem solves ITSELF).
Masaki Yasuhara
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The properties of anticausatives crosslinguistically [PDF]
, 2008 The causative/anticausative alternation has been the topic of much typological and theoretical discussion in the linguistic literature. This alternation is characterized by verbs with transitive and intransitive uses, such that the transitive use of a ...
Alexiadou, Artemis +2 more
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Anticausatives with passives of subordinate intransitive clauses in Xitsonga [PDF]
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2019 Literature shows that anticausatives have been well investigated in European languages such as English, German, and Greek. However, this is not the case with African languages, particularly Bantu languages such as Xitsonga.
Hlungwani, Madala Crous
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The oblique anticausative in Lithuanian
Baltistica, 2014 This article examines Lithuanian structures with accusative functioning as a subject. It pursues the idea that this accusative is of old origin. This hypothesis is based on a detailed comparison with Old Icelandic, revealing striking similarities within ...
Valgerður Bjarnadóttir
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A Unified Analysis of Passives and Anticausatives [PDF]
ZAS Papers in Linguistics, 2019 Starting from the basic observation that, across languages, the anticausative variant of an alternating verb systematically involves morphological marking that is shared by passive verbs, the goal of this paper is to provide a uniform and formal account ...
Kallulli, Dalina
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Anticausatives are weak scalar expressions, not reflexive expressions
Glossa, 2016 We discuss conceptual and empirical arguments from Germanic, Romance and Slavic languages against an analysis treating anticausative verbs as derived from their lexical causative counterparts under reflexivization. Instead, we defend the standard account
Florian Schäfer, Margot Vivanco
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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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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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Anticausatives in transitive guise
Natural Language and Linguistic TheoryAbstract This article discusses verbs of change that allow a formally transitive construal that, nevertheless, has anticausative semantics. Verbs forming such “transitive anticausatives” (e.g., The water raised its temperature ) also form canonical anticausatives (cf.
Florian Schäfer
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