- In linguistics, an
unaccusative verb is an
intransitive verb
whose grammatical subject is not a
semantic agent. In
other words, the
subject does not actively...
- as:
unaccusative when the
subject is not an agent; that is, it does not
actively initiate the
action of the verb (e.g. "die", "fall").
Unaccusative verbs...
- resigning. But fall and die in the
sentence "They fall and die" are
unaccusative verbs,
since usually they are not
responsible for
falling or
dying but...
-
Anticausative verbs are a
subset of
unaccusative verbs.
Although the
terms are
generally synonymous, some
unaccusative verbs are more
obviously anticausative...
-
structure of the
complement must
unify with the
structure of the head." The
unaccusative hypothesis was put
forward by
David Perlmutter in 1987, and describes...
- verbs;
unaccusative and unergative.
Unaccusative verbs are
subdivided into "pure
unaccusatives" and
alternating unaccusatives (
unaccusatives that are...
- from 1968. However, the term "ergative verb" has also been used for
unaccusative verbs, and in most
other contexts, it is used for
ergative constructions...
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Negative Performative Phrasal Predicative Preterite-present Pure
Reflexive Regular /
Irregular Separable Stative Stretched Transitive Unaccusative Unergative...
- p****ivization.
Unaccusative verbs may not. The
ability to
undergo this
transformation is a
frequently used test to
distinguish unergative and
unaccusative verbs...
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Stripping Subject-auxiliary
inversion Subject-verb
inversion Topicalization Tough movement Unaccusative verbs V2 word
order Verb
phrase ellipsis Wh-movement...
