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Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2006 My research explores the predicate-argument structure of unergatives (cough, dream, float, run, work…) and questions their ontological status as a primitive type of intransitive verb (contra the Unaccusative Hypothesis: Perlmutter 1978; Burzio 1986 ...
Asier Alcázar
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Auxiliaries and Verb Classes in Child Italian: A Syntactic Analysis of the Development of Aspect
Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2015 In this paper we will analyse the production and interpretation of the forms of the present perfect (passato prossimo) in children’s Italian. Young children use past or perfective forms mainly to refer to telic predicates and present or imperfective ...
Paolo Lorusso
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Hybrid intransitives in Basque
Glossa, 2020 This paper deals with a group of agentive verbs in Eastern dialects of Basque that show mixed unergative and unaccusative properties. Although they pattern with unergatives in certain aspects, they combine with an absolutive subject and the auxiliary ‘be’
Ane Berro, Anna Pineda
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Auxiliary selection and counterfactuality in the history of English and Germanic [PDF]
, 2006 The retreat of BE as perfect auxiliary in the history of English is examined. Corpus data are presented showing that the initial advance of HAVE was most closely connected to a restriction against BE in past counterfactuals. Other factors which have been
Alexiadou, Artemis, McFadden, Thomas
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Objects in motion verb phrases
Glossa, 2019 This article investigates the syntactic and semantic relationship between the unselected object and the unergative verb in examples like Mary waltzed John around the room.
Alison Biggs
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Ergative case, aspect and person splits: Two case studies [PDF]
, 2015 Ergativity splits between perfect and imperfective/progressive predicates are observed in languages with a specialized ergative case (Punjabi) and without it (Kurdish).
Franco, Ludovico +2 more
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Reactivation of unaccusative and unergative verbs in Mandarin [PDF]
Concentric. Studies in Linguistics, 2021 Abstract Intransitives can be classified into two subclasses: unaccusative verbs and unergative verbs. According to the Unaccusative Hypothesis, the difference between unaccusatives and unergatives lies in where the single argument is generated in the underlying syntactic structure.
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The on-line processing of unaccusativity in Greek agrammatism [PDF]
, 2013 We investigated the on-line processing of unaccusative and unergative sentences in a group of eight Greek-speaking individuals diagnosed with Broca aphasia and a group of language-unimpaired subjects used as the baseline. The processing of unaccusativity
Balaguer +18 more
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Glossa, 2019 The Unaccusative Hypothesis (UH) has been extensively studied in linguistics, but, to date, it has not been tested by means of ERPs. The present study aimed to experimentally test the UH hypothesis in Basque and determine what the electrophysiological ...
Adam Zawiszewski +2 more
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Unsupervised Discovery of Unaccusative and Unergative Verbs
, 2021 We present an unsupervised method to detect English unergative and unaccusative verbs. These categories allow us to identify verbs participating in the causative-inchoative alternation without knowing the semantic roles of the verb. The method is based on the generation of intransitive sentence variants of candidate verbs and probing a language model ...
Loáiciga, Sharid +2 more
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