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On the Internal Argument(s) of Unaccusative [Verb+Preposition] Structures
Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 2012 In this paper I use the feature [+/–animate] to distinguish unaccusative [verb+preposition] structures where the verb projects the internal argument from structures where the preposition projects the internal argument.
Castillo Orihuela, Concepción
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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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Extra argumentality - affectees, landmarks, and voice [PDF]
, 2006 This article investigates sentences with additional core arguments of a special type in three languages, viz. German, English, and Mandarin. These additional arguments, called extra arguments in the article, form a crosslinguistically homogeneous class ...
Cheung Hung-Nin +15 more
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Functional Projections and Event Structure
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1997 The variable behavior verbs in unaccusative/unergative alternation in Dutch, Italian, and Hebrew led Borer(1993) to deny the "lexical-entrydriven approach.
Khym, Hangyoo, Kookiattikoon, Supath
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Expletive Constructions and Agreement in Labeling Theory
Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.ABSTRACT In this paper, I explain how agreement occurs in English expletive constructions, in accord with recent work in the Minimalist Program. I develop a proposal that relies on feature unification and probe‐goal agreement, as well as the notion that internal merge of arguments generally applies freely.
Jason Ginsburg
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Ordinals, reflexives and unaccusatives
Journal of Uralic Linguistics, 2022 Abstract This paper presents a unified outlook on the syntax of constructions featuring the reflexive clitic se, with particular emphasis on the uniform morphosyntax of the Hungarian element -ik, treated as an exponent of se both in the verbal domain and in the nominal domain (in ordinal numeral constructions). The analysis is couched in
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Inacusatividade e inergatividade no PB
Cadernos de Estudos Lingüísticos, 2011 This paper presents a descriptive analysis of intransitive verb behavior in Brazilian Portuguese, specially the verbs known as unaccusative ones. We propose a prototypical analysis of this verb class, because the tests proposed by the literature do not ...
Larissa Ciríaco, Márcia Cançado
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Residues and Extensions of Perfective Auxiliary be: Modal Conditioning
Languages, 2022 This article provides both a diachronic and synchronic account of the generalization of perfective auxiliary be in specific irrealis modal contexts across numerous Romance varieties spoken in Italy and more widely within the Romània, which has ...
Adam Ledgeway
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Phasage: a phase based account of English existential constructions [PDF]
, 2011 English existentials have received much attention in the generative literature as they exhibit certain properties that are difficult to capture under standard theoretical assumptions. The aim of this paper is to provide, in one fell swoop, an account
Harwood, William
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Lability in Hittite and Indo‐European: A Diachronic Perspective
Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.ABSTRACT Lability is defined as the possibility of a verb to enter a valency alternation without undergoing any change in its form. Labile verbs were common in ancient Indo‐European languages, including Hittite, which mostly features anticausative lability, with reflexive and reciprocal lability being less prominent.
Guglielmo Inglese
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