..., representing perceived causation [+/-c] and mental involvement [+/-m] The chapter contains extensive discussions of the processes underlying the formation of unaccusatives, passives, and middles and of experiencer alternations. While based on the text of Reinhart (2000), it is enriched with extensive...

... a relationship between two NPs, with possibly agreeing functional heads playing no direct role. As a result, the transitivity of the clause is crucial, but the absolute position of a single NP within the clause (the unergative–unaccusative distinction) will typically not be crucial. Therefore, we observe...

...–OBL pattern, including some kind of oblique case (e.g. allative, instrumental) that can be analyzed as a PP ( Nedjalkov 1976 , Jonathan Bobaljik, p.c.). My tentative prediction, then, is that any language that has ergative case on the higher of two NPs in a dyadic unaccusative construction will also...

... Karl quickly Unaccusative Unergative ?aamad‐e *‘come’ *david‐e *‘run’ resid‐e ? ‘arrived’ *raqside *‘danced’ rixt‐e ‘spilt’ *xandid‐e *‘laughed’ ?baarid‐e *‘precipitated’ chekid‐e *‘dripped’ Ali xand‐aan vaared shod...

... dislocation VSO null subjects subject positions inversion subject clitics SubjP vP periphery unaccusatives Within formal syntactic theory a considerable amount of attention has been focussed on the syntax of subject positions. The important point to note for our purposes is that a number...

... an analysis of the Greek Voice system according to which a structure containing NAct can be productively employed to yield new meanings, as recently proposed by Oikonomou and Alexiadou (2022). Voice system non-active Voice deponent verbs unaccusatives anticausatives Greek heritage speakers Greek...

...) Verb/argument type Percentage of genitive responses Nonspecific object of transitive 73 Specific object of transitive 4 Subject of unergative 0% Argument of unaccusative 45 Table 12.3 Results from Hirsch and Wexler (2007) Age Actives Think Unraised...

.... This reconstruction reveals selection pressures that would have steered evolution towards a transitive stage, and uncovers a host of fossils found across all modern languages, including unaccusatives, nominals, absolutives, and exocentric compounds. Strong support for the gradualist approach also comes from...

...-standing puzzle in Polish and Czech morphology, namely why only unaccusative verbs build adjectival L-passives whereas all types of verbs build active L-participles. Czech functional sequence fseq zones L passive N passive Polish Slavic participles T passive L participle active case peels...

...‐to‐subject raising [_TP DP v V [_TPDP …]] Covert A‐movement analysis [_TP DP v [vp/tp … DP …]] Covert passive/unaccusative advancement [_TP DP v [_VP V DP]] Non...

... Slovene Spanish verb prefixes unaccusatives time resultatives secondary imperfectives reciprocals Imperatives prepositions small clauses case genitive case instrumental case creation consumption verbs external argument homogeneity incremental themes perfect progressive accomplishments...

... argument causative derivation feature Instrument transitive unaccusative Cause event lexical Theme verb arity operation decomposition mental state mentally involved M operation force intention Goal PP Sentient subject matter accusative dative empty role Hebrew morphosyntax...

... representations of gaps in the transitive-unaccusative alternation. derivation English passive transitive unaccusative verb lexical mental lexicon operation hidden lexical entry psychological reality anticausative argument causative Hebrew unaccusativity Hungarian mental state mentally involved M...

... stage in nom-acc languages include unaccusatives, nominals, se-constructions, and VN exocentric compounds. Under this approach it is conceivable that some languages make predominant or sole use of simpler, but coherent, small clause grammars, or absolutive-based grammars. Acknowledging...

... language spoken in Turkey, all eventive verbal predicates, including both unergatives and unaccusatives, pattern as transitives syntactically, involving a subject and an object position. Thus, there are no syntactic differences between transitives, unergatives, and unaccusatives. The chapter argues...