Syntactic Unaccusativity in Russian

Schoorlemmer, Maaike

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“…Applying some of the unaccusativity tests for Russian, one can see that stative causatives are not unaccusative predicates. The distributive test (Schoorlemmer 2004) shows this. Whereas inchoative verbs derived with e-vowel pass this test and can occur in distributive contexts ( 23), stative causatives cannot (24).…”

Section: Stative Causativesmentioning

confidence: 79%

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Section: Stative Causativesmentioning

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“…Split intransitivity has often been connected in various ways to telicity (for example by Zaenen 1988 and Borer 2005). Diagnostics of telicity and hence purportedly unaccusativity in English are adverbials like for hours , for seconds , for years etc., which supposedly only occur with atelic/‘unergative’ verbs (Schoorlemmer 2004: 227). Most verbs in English occur with phrases like for hours very freely: Lucy stayed/sat/coughed/swam/worked for hours.…”

Section: Inherently Telic Verbsmentioning

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Split intransitivity in English

Baker

2018

English Language and Linguistics

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This article proposes a hierarchy of functional heads encoding the features [±control], [±initiation], [±state], [±change] and [±telic] (see Ramchand 2008). It is argued that this allows for a superior analysis of split intransitivity in English than the traditional notion of ‘unaccusativity’ – the idea that there are two classes of intransitive verbs which differ in relation to the underlying status/positions of their arguments. Rather, it is shown – on the basis of a systematic consideration of a wide range of English verbs – that the proposed diagnostics for unaccusativity in English identify multiple classes, whose behaviour can be captured in terms of the proposed hierarchy. Good correlation is found between the classes identified by the English diagnostics and Sorace's (2000) Auxiliary Selection Hierarchy (ASH), providing further support for the cross-linguistic applicability of the ASH to split intransitive patterns.

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“…Various linguists have studied unaccusative/unergative predicates in Slavic languages, including Sobin (1985), Schoorlemmer (1997Schoorlemmer ( , 2004, Cetnarowska (2000aCetnarowska ( , b, 2002, Babby (2001), and Harves (2002Harves ( , 2006 Harves (2006), following the work of Babby (1980) and Pesetsky (1982), proposes the following diagnostics for unaccusativity in Russian: (i) the genitive of negation, (ii) distributive po-phrases, (iii) locative inversion, Brought to you by | Purdue University Libraries Authenticated Download Date | 5/31/15 5:43 AM and (iv) unmarked word order (SVO). Pesetsky (1982) points out that only direct internal NP arguments (direct objects and subjects of unaccusatives) may receive genitive case under negation, as can be seen in (25) and (26).…”

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Unaccusatives and unergatives: Evidence from Croatian

Knežević

Brdar

2014

Folia Linguistica

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We argue that the unaccusativity phenomenon occurs in Croatian, as in many other languages. We demonstrate that unaccusative predicates not only have to meet specific (morpho)syntactic diagnostic criteria, but also that semantic criteria are involved. We show that it is possible to characterize Croatian intransitive verbs as unaccusatives using the following diagnostics: 1. past participle derivation by suffixation of -l; 2. participial adjective formation; 3. -ač (-er) nominals; 4. prefixation by the preverbs po-, do-and u-; 5. the perfective aspect; 6. resultative constructions; and 7. the possessive dative. In order to demonstrate a number of relevant semantic diagnostics, three classes of verbs are isolated, defined in terms of their lexical semantic representation and their morphosyntactic configuration: verbs of change of state, verbs of appearance and verbs of inherently directed motion.

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Syntactic Unaccusativity in Russian

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Split intransitivity in English

Unaccusatives and unergatives: Evidence from Croatian

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