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The Unaccusative-Unergative Dichotomy of Predicates. Is There an Unaccusative Mismatch in English?

English Language Teaching and Linguistics Studies, 2019
The paper addresses the issue of the unaccusative-unergative dichotomy of predicates, providing a special analysis of the class status of the verb “to die” in English. First, the article opens with a view of unaccusativity in the light of the Lexicon-Syntax Interface.
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Against the Unaccusative Analysis of Reflexives

, 2004
In this paper we argue that the unaccusative analysis of reflexive verbs must be discarded, as reflexives systematically fail syntactic tests of unaccusativity. They are unergative entries, whose subject is an external argument, unlike the subject of unaccusatives.
Reinhart, T., Siloni, T.
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The Origin and Content of Expletives: Evidence from “Selection” [PDF]

, 2010
While expletive there has primarily been studied in the context of the existential construction, it has long been known that some but not all lexical verbs are compatible with there-insertion.
Deal, Amy Rose
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Revisiting verbs of emission: an update on some relevant theoretical accounts of lexical specification and argument structure of emission verbs [PDF]

Logos et Littera: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Text, 2016
The paper addresses the question of what semantic properties lexicalized in verbs determine their syntactic behavior in intransitive motion events and in resultative constructions in English and Serbian ...
Natasa Milivojevic
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The acquisition of middles and unaccusatives by Cantonese ESL learners. [PDF]

, 1998
by Chan Mable.Thesis submitted in 1997.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 120-124).Abstract also in Chinese.Chapter Chapter1 --- Second Language Acquisition Research: Background to the ...

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Nonspecific External Arguments in Turkish

Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 1997
The proposal that nonspecific arguments obligatorily remain within VP has long been a topic of discussion (Enç 1991; Diesing 1992 among others). In Turkish I propose that the constraint is even stronger; nonspecific arguments are contained in VP ...
Sarah Kennelly
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The syntax of wh-questions in unaccusative and (Un)ergative structures in Mehri language: A Phase-based approach. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2023
Fakih AH, Al-Qumairi SS, Alzubi AAF.
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Expletives as features [PDF]

, 2000
Expletives have always been a central topic of theoretical debate and subject to different analyses within the different stages of the Principles and Parameter theory (see Chomsky 1981, 1986, 1995; Lasnik 1992, 1995; Frampton and Gutman 1997; among ...
Sabel, Joachim
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Italian and Arbëresh (Albanian) causatives

Isogloss
Causative verbs in the Albanian variety of Arbëresh take a finite complement clause, with the causee realized as a nominative or as an oblique (like the dative/instrumental causee in Italian).
Anna Roussou, M. Rita Manzini
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Going Native? Yes, If Allowed by Cross-Linguistic Similarity. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2021
Martínez de la Hidalga G, Zawiszewski A, Laka I.   +2 more
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