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Intransitive verbs in Enets: A contribution to the typology of split intransitivity [PDF]
Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2019 This paper contributes to the typology of “active-stative” split intransitivity and middle voice with a detailed case study: it proceeds from a typological comparison of the two phenomena, which are usually treated apart, to an analysis of the Enets data
Khanina Olesya, Shluinsky Andrey
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Transimpersonal constructions in Lithuanian: towards the emergence of Split Intransitivity
Baltistica, 2015 Transimpersonal constructions have recently attracted the attention of many scholars, especially in the field of functional typology, as they have been proven to play an important role in the rise of Split Intransitive patterns in languages. In the light
Silvia Piccini
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Glossa, 2017 Split intransitivity (SI) is the generalization that intransitive verbs form two subclasses: the subjects of some intransitives behave like direct objects of transitive verbs, whereas the subjects of other intransitives behave like transitive subjects ...
Shin Fukuda
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Lexico - Semantic Interpretation of Transitive And Intransitive Constructions in The Grammar of The German Language [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2023 The article is devoted to the description of studies of transitivity-intransitivity categories as a grammatical category of the German language.The author pays special attention to the question of the function and place of the accusative in a German ...
Abdukadyrova Tumisha, Khasieva Marina
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To What Extent Does Split Intransitivity of the Adult Target Affect Children’s Emerging Verb Patterns? [PDF]
Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts, 2014 The Unaccusative Hypothesis has produced several diagnoses for determining whether a given intransitive verb is unaccusative or unergative. While some are suggested to be language-specific, like ne in Italian or pleonastic “there” in English, others have
John M. Ryan
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Light Verbs and Split Ergativity in the Western Cholan Languages
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2006 This paper is a discussion of a complex verbal construction in Western Cholan languages and how this construction interacts with the split ergative systems found in these languages. The Cholan languages all display split-ergative systems based on aspect.
Montgomery-Anderson, Brad
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Laboratory Phonology, 2018 A production experiment was run to examine how information structure and verbal semantics affect word ordering and nuclear stress placement in intransitive sentences in Venezuelan Spanish.
Ana Olssen, Erwin La Cruz, Sasha Calhoun
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Analisi comparata del fenomeno dell’intransitività scissa nelle varietà campane
Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2023 This paper presents the results of an intensive research on the phenomenon of split intransitivity in Campanian varieties. In the first part it presents the phenomenon according to the different theoretical approaches considered, in order to analyse the
Mariangela Cerullo, Paolo Izzo
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Rethinking split intransitivity
, 2020 This chapter presents a development of Perlmutter’s (1978) unaccusative hypothesis. It argues that the verbal domain should be considered to comprise an ordered series of functional heads here termed the VISCO hierarchy, and that this approach permits an improvement understanding of split intransitive behaviours.
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Learning unaccusativity: Evidence for split intransitivity in child Spanish
Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 2023 We examine four features of unaccusativity in child-directed and child Spanish to determine what cues children might use to distinguish unaccusative and unergative verbs. Two are cross-linguistic lexico-semantic features: Subjects of unaccusatives are patients so we expect more inanimate subjects with unaccusatives; and unaccusatives tend to have an ...
Victoria Mateu +2 more
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