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The argument expression of change-of-state verbs and pseudo-transitive verbs
Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies, 2010 Normal 0 21 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Normal tablazat"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt ...
Kardos, Eva
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Change-of-State Verbs: Implications for Theories of Argument Projection
Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 2002 Abstract Verbs showing multiple argument projection options, often with concomitant shifts in aspectual classification or assignment of the ‘aspectual’ roles measure or incremental theme, are ubiquitous. Their pervasiveness has given rise to two hypotheses concerning argument realization: argument expression is not lexically determined ...
Malka Rappaport Hovav, Beth Levin
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Transitivity and Change of State Verbs
Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 2002 In this paper, I argue that semantic and pragmatic properties—as opposed to syntactic properties—are responsible for the variability found with transitive uses of change of state verbs. In particular, a variety of factors combine together to determine the argument expression options associated with an individual verb.
Wright, Saundra K.
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LinguisticsChange-of-state verbs are heterogeneous with respect to their occurrence in the causative-anticausative alternation. While some of them are never used as anticausatives (e.g., destroy), others seem to largely favor the anticausative form (e.g., wither ...
Heidinger Steffen, Huyghe Richard
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Two types of change-of-state attributes in English
Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 2000 Contrary to the common belief that all attributes denoting a change of state belong to one and the same uniform class, we strongly defend in the present paper the existence of two distinct syntactic-semantic kinds of change of state attributes in the ...
Rodríguez Arrizabalaga, Beatriz
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The actantial structure of derived change-of-state verbs in the old Romanian language (I) [PDF]
Diversitate si Identitate Culturala in Europa, 2020 This paper aims to analyze the actantial structure of eventive verbs, obtained by the derivational formula prefix + nominal base (noun/adjective/numeral) +lexical grammatical suffix], included in the general class of change-of-stateverbs ...
Marinuşa CONSTANTIN
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The Aktionsart Properties of State Change Verbs in Turkish
Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2003 This paper analyzes aspectual characteristics of change of State verbs, specifically "degree achievements," based on gradable adjectives in Turkish. In terms of temporal properties, these verbs display variable behaviour: they can refer to either telic ...
Yeşim Aksan
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The problem with internally caused change-of-state verbs
Linguistics, 2014 Artemis Alexiadou
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Cognitive LinguisticsThis study examines the interplay of attraction and differentiation through the diachronic encoding of causative alternations in Chinese. A corpus-based analysis is conducted to profile the use of two Change of State verbs (COS verbs), pò ‘break’ and kāi
Du Jing, Zuo Shan, Li Fuyin Thomas
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