Results 1 to 10 of about 132 (118)

Decomposing unaccusativity: a statistical modelling approach [PDF]

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
While the two types of intransitive verbs, i.e., unergative and unaccusative, are hypothesised to be syntactically represented, many have proposed a semantic account where abstract properties related to agentivity and telicity, often conceptualised as binary properties, determine the classification.
Jeffrey R Binder, Colin Humphries, Lisa L Conant   +2 more
exaly   +4 more sources

Word Order variation in L1 and L2 Italian speakers: the role of Focus and the Unaccusativity Hierarchy

Isogloss, 2022
This paper investigates the Italian Word Order variation in the position of subjects (S) with respect to finite predicates (V) in two adult populations: L1-Italian speakers and L1-French L2-Italian speakers.
Caterina Tasinato, Emanuela Sanfelici
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Lowest theme vowels or highest roots? An ‘unaccusative’ theme-vowel class in Slovenian

Glossa, 2022
This paper focuses on the e/i theme vowel class of verbs in Slovenian to bring together two seemingly unrelated debates: (i) the debate on the correlation between theme vowel classes with certain argument structures and (ii) the debate on the status of ...
Marko Simonović, Petra Mišmaš
doaj   +2 more sources

Reflexive verbs in Hebrew: Deep unaccusativity meets lexical semantics

Glossa, 2017
Reflexive verbs in Modern Hebrew show specific morphological marking: only one of the seven verbal templates in the language can be used for reflexives.
Itamar Kastner
doaj   +2 more sources

Existential unaccusativity and new discourse referents

Glossa, 2018
It is well-known that new information strongly disprefers subject position in English (Horn 1986; Prince 1981; 1992; Beaver et al., 2005), even though English allows indefinite subjects. English is therefore seen as one of the many languages that adheres
Patricia Irwin
doaj   +2 more sources

Verbs' unaccusativity in existential constructions

Journal of Child Language Acquisition and Development
The Unaccusative Hypothesis(UH) advocates the dominance of syntactic structure in assigning semantic values to sentence arguments. The same thematic roles should only be assigned by the same syntactic configuration.
Zhangyan Miao
doaj   +3 more sources

The case of unaccusative mismatch in English [PDF]

Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2016
The paper examines the unaccusative-unergative dichotomy of predicates, with a special focus laid on the class status of the verb TO DIE in English. The paper begins with a view of unaccusativity in the light of the Lexicon-Syntax Interface. Further, the
Anna Dąbrowska
doaj  

Analyse de la composante sémantique lexicale de l’inversion locative en anglais

E-REA, 2013
This article examines the noncanonical structure known as the locative inversion, which can be described as : < Constituent1 C1 (fronted locative expression) + verb V + Constituent2 C2 (postposed subject) >.
Gérard MÉLIS
doaj   +1 more source