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The Malay verbal prefix meN- and the unergative/unaccusative distinction

Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 2011
The verbal prefix meN- in Malay is known to block DP movement. The existing analyses of this phenomenon focus on the blocking effect of meN- in transitive sentences but have not paid attention to whether such an effect holds in intransitive sentences.
Hooi Ling Soh, Hiroki Nomoto
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Issues with the Unergative/Unaccusative Classification of the Intransitive Verbs

2011 International Conference on Asian Language Processing, 2011
The paper abandons a strict two-way sub-classification of intransitive verbs into unaccuasative and unergative for Hindi and proposes a distribution plotting of the same in a diffusion chart. The diagnostics tests that Bhatt (2003) applied on Hindi data are ranked for their efficiency of attributing correct sub-class to verbs. The diffusion chart shows
Nitesh Surtani, Khushboo Jha, Soma Paul
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Impersonal se Constructions in Romance and the Passivization of Unergatives

Linguistic Inquiry, 1998
Romance constructions of the type SE Vunerg (e.g., si dorme) are shown to rely not only on nominative SE, as in Italian finite clauses, but also on accusative middle-passive SE. The latter analysis is needed for Romanian, because this language does not have nominative SE, as well as for Italian nonfinite clauses, in which nominative SE is illegitimate.
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Subject Case Marking in Urdu Unergative and Unaccusative Compound Verbs

Nepalese Linguistics
This paper examines subject case marking with unergative verbs in Urdu compound verb constructions. Urdu has two types of intransitive verbs: unergative and unaccusative. While intransitive verbs typically take a nominative subject, unergative verbs may optionally take an ergative subject, indicating agentivity.
MJ Warsi, Noman Tahir
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Acquisition of English Unergative and Unaccusative Structures by Persian EFL Learners

2012
The acquisition of argument structures has been studied by a variety of second language acquisition scholars within the past two decades (Atay, 2010; Can, 2009; Chay, 2006, & Kras, 2007, among others). In the present study, ‘Predicate’ as the most substantial element of a sentence is investigated.
Rezai, Mohammad Javad, Ariamanesh, Ali Akbar   +1 more
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Unaccusative and Unergative Root Classes in Mi’kmaw

2023
Barbara Sylliboy, Arlene Stevens, Yvonne Denny, Dianne Friesen   +3 more
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32 A short excursus on unergative VNs

2023
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Passives of unergatives and ergative marking

2022
Sorin, Carmen Dobrovie, Hofherr, Patricia Cabredo   +1 more
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The absence of an implicit object in unergatives: New and old evidence from Basque

Lingua, 2012
Omer Preminger
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Unaccusative and Unergative Verbs in L2 English

Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 2017
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