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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Unaccusative"”.
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Operations on lexical forms : unaccusative rules in Germanic languages
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1986.
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The acquisition of the distinction between unaccusative and unergative verbs by English speakers at the lower intermediate level of L2 Russian
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages, 2005
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Passive Unaccusatives In L2 English
… a phenomenon whereby L2 English speakers produce unaccusative verbs in passive constructions. Since unaccusative verbs are a subset of intransitive verbs and thus generally do not passivize, the question of how learners recognize unaccusatives without any overt input distinguishing subsets of …
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Causativity in Chinese and its representations in English, Japanese and Korean speakers' L2 Chinese grammars.
Chinese does not allow causative alternating unaccusative verbs or object-Experiencer psych verbs. It employs analytical causative (headed by shi 'make'), resultative (headed by de) and compound causative (with an activity predicate V1 and a result predicate V2 forming a V1-V2 compound) …
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Structural case on adjuncts
… is repeated. In transitive, unergative, and unaccusative constructions, the adverbial is marked with accusative case. In psychological predicate constructions, the adverbial is marked with nominative case. Interestingly, in passive and inchoative constructions (grouped together under the term …
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Madija predicates
… further evidence for such proposals as the Unaccusative Hypothesis, Postal's proposed analysis for antipassive, the analysis of impersonal constructions as containing a dummy nominal, and the analysis of causatives as multipredicate clauses (along the lines of proposals by Davies and Rosen). …
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A Relational Grammar approach to Kera syntax
… to which this stem agreement is sensitive. An unaccusative advancement analysis of certain intransitive clauses is proposed and defended.</p> <p>"The ascension of a final downstairs subject is possible from a host that is the direct object of a verb which translates 'allow'; of particular …
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Dakota Sioux objects
… support of the multilevel relational network of Unaccusative and Reflexive clauses. It is also shown that an analysis which posits advancements to direct object allows for concise generalizations, whereas an analysis which does not include advancement to direct object cannot capture these …
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Warlpiri : theoretical implications
… reveals the first reported distinction between unaccusative and unergative verbs in the language.
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The Acquisition of Morphosyntactic Properties of English Compounding and Transitivity Alternations by L1 Speakers of Libyan Arabic
… of the influence of UG on the representation of unaccusative versus unergative verbs, but no evidence of UG influence in other areas investigated (constraints on number marking in noun compounds and on the the linking of thematic arguments to syntactic positions). Little development was observed …
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Split noun phrases and the theory of case
… they appear with derived (raised) subjects of unaccusative verbs. I argue that Case is a feature of the nominal head of a DP. Extraction of the nominal head by quantitative en creates a DP remnant which is incapable of checking Case, since it lacks the necessary feature. Genitive en does not …
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Split intransitivity: Thematic roles, case and agreement
… intransitivity following Perlmutter's (1978) Unaccusative Hypothesis. The VICTR Hierarchy is also compared to the similar proposal of Ramchand (2008). It is argued that the VICTR Hierarchy accounts more readily than these other approaches for the particular classes of verbs identified by split …
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Case Assignment on Adverbial NPs in Korean
… is unexpected when the predicate is considered unaccusative, lacking the ACC-assigning property. I suggest that the answer to the two puzzles is from the fact that Case is not the monopoly of the narrow syntax, but a joint asset of other grammatical representations of the entire sentence. I …