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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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The argument expression of change-of-state verbs and pseudo-transitive verbs

Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies, 2010
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Kardos, Eva
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The expression of change-of-state in the Finnic languages

Open Linguistics, 2020
The present article studies verbs that are used to convey change-of-state in the Finnic languages: “to come”, “to go”, “to remain/stay”, “to get”, “will be”, “to make/do”, and “to be born/give birth”.
Norvik Miina
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Semantic roles and the causative-anticausative alternation: evidence from French change-of-state verbs

Linguistics
Change-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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6 Change of state verbs [PDF]

, 2021
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Attraction or differentiation: diachronic changes in the causative alternation of Chinese change of state verbs

Cognitive Linguistics
This 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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Lexical classes and constructions: an analysis of the constructional realization of entity-specific change-of-state English verbs

ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics)
This study analyzes a so far neglected part of the constructional behavior of Levin’s (1993) entity-specific change-of-state verbs. More specifically, we discuss the integration of verbs from this lexical class into the intransitive-resultative ...
Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Andreea Rosca   +1 more
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The problem with internally caused change-of-state verbs

Linguistics, 2014
Artemis Alexiadou
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