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Unaccusatives and unergatives: Evidence from Croatian
Folia Linguistica, 2014Abstract We argue that the unaccusativity phenomenon occurs in Croatian, as in many other languages. We demonstrate that unaccusative predicates not only have to meet specific (morpho)syntactic diagnostic criteria, but also that semantic criteria are involved.
Bogunović, Irena, Knežević, Božana
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Datives in Basque bivalent unergatives
Language Faculty and Beyond, 2016Bivalent predicates which mark their sole object dative rather than absolutive/accusative are unexpected under the assumption that dative is associated with a ‘second complement’. Apparently first complements of morphologically transitive verbs are also found in Basque, in the main semantic classes already identified by Blume (1998).
Beatriz Fernandez
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Licensing unergative objects in ergative languages: The view from Polynesian
Syntax, 2022AbstractTransitive and unergative verbs have long received a uniform syntactic analysis, where they differ in whether an overt object is present (in transitives) or absent (in unergatives). We examine how objects of unergative verbs are case licensed when theyarepresent, focusing on a contrast between two related Polynesian languages: Samoan and Niuean.
Rebecca Tollan, Diane Massam
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Nonunitary structure of unergative verbs in Georgian
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 2021Léa Nash
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UNERGATIVES AS COPULAR VERBS; LOCATIONAL AND EXISTENTIAL PREDICATION
Linguistic Review, 1990TEUN HOEKSTRA, RENÉ MULDER
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An aspectual account of constructions headed by unergatives and unaccusatives
Cognitive Linguistic Studies, 2022AbstractThis article presents an aspectual account of the interface between lexicon and syntax. Following Tenny’s AIH (Aspectual Interface Hypothesis), we assume that only the aspectual property of lexical information is sensitive and predictive to argument structure.
Xiaotao Zhou, Jun Wang
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Behavior adjectives : Dynamic, agentive and unergative
2012This paper examines the question of aspect with relation to adjectives. We argue that there exists a set of adjectives in French that exhibit linguistic properties similar to those of dynamic verbs, like imprudent ‘careless’ or méchant ‘mean’. All dynamic adjectives take a syntactic subject interpreted as “agent” and are unergative.
Paykin, Katia, Tayalati, Fayssal
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The Neural Correlates of Linguistic Distinctions: Unaccusative and Unergative Verbs
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2010AbstractUnaccusative verbs like fall are special in that their sole argument is syntactically generated at the object position of the verb rather than at the subject position. Unaccusative verbs are derived by a lexical operation that reduces the agent from transitive verbs.
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