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Corrective and Exhaustive Foci: A Comparison Between Italian and French

Languages
This paper investigates the acceptability of focused Objects with [+corrective, +exhaustive] features in Italian and French, considering the role of syntactic rigidity, Exhaustivity Markers (EMs), and argument structure.
Marco Casentini, Tania Stortini
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Euskararen kasu-markaketaren aldakortasun dialektala

Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2010
In this talk I present a summary of the works I have published in the last years on Basque case-marking, where I make the point that there is important dialectal variation regarding this issue.
Gontzal Aldai
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On the Frequency of Ocurrence of Cognate Object Constructions in Present-Day British English. A Preliminary Corpus-Based Analysis.

Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2016
Despite having always being a central subject-matter in linguistics due to their controversial syntactico-semantic and pragmatic status, the pragmatic dimension of English cognate object constructions of the type He died a gruesome death and She smiled ...
Beatriz Rodríguez Arrizabalaga
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Acquisition of French Causatives: Parallels to English Passives

Languages, 2018
Guasti (2016) notes similarities between English get- and be-passives, and Romance causatives of the faire-par and faire-infinitif types, respectively.
Jason Borga, William Snyder
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Active, middle, and passive: the morpho-syntax of Voice

Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2014
This paper is concerned with the variation found with respect to how languages morphologically mark argument structure (AS) alternations, a variation that I take to be related to the realization of the syntactic Voice head.
Artemis Alexiadou
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Against a low subject analysis of causatives of unergatives

Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 2023
Contrary to the long-standing assumption that the causative alternation is limited to unaccusative verbs, direct causatives of unergatives have recently been attested in a variety of languages (Massam 2009; Legate 2014; Nash 2017, 2021; Tollan 2018; Tollan & Oxford 2018; Kouneli 2021; Myler 2022; Krishnan & Sarma 2023).
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Verbos de movimiento en ruso y español: una vez más sobre la intransitividad dividida

Estudios de Lingüística, 2004
This paper investigates the relationship between the syntactic configuration of two classes of intransitive verbs of motion (the unaccusative and unergative verbs), on the one hand, and certain semantic properties of the respective predicates,
Volha Batsiukova
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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
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Wide-focus subject-verb inversion in Ibero-Romance: A locative account

Glossa, 2016
This paper explores the hypothesis that wide-focus subject-verb inversion in Ibero-Romance is a type of locative inversion, involving a null locative argument.
Alice Corr
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Argument structure and morphology: the case of en-prefixation revisited

Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2007
In this paper I argue that en-prefixed words in Catalan and English (e.g. amorN 'love' > [[en+amor]V+ar]V 'to make someone fall in love'; nobleA > [en+noble]V are not exceptions to the Right-hand Head Rule (RHR; Williams 1981a).
Susanna Padrosa Trias
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