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Beschreibung
This paper reassesses the syntactic and semantic analysis of unergative verbs with inanimate subjects. Two main problems are present: First, what component of meaning predicts their unergativity? Contra Reinhart 2002, this paper argues that inanimate unergatives involve a causal implication, hence their subject merges externally without further ado. Second, a subset of inanimate unergatives exhibits transitive alternates (e.g. The doorbell buzzed / The postman buzzed the doorbell). How is the alternation formed? This paper shows that the process involved here is a productive, non-derivational pattern, which has been independently attested.
Evidence from Hebrew
Details
| Verlag | LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing |
| Ersterscheinung | 04. Januar 2011 |
| Maße | 22 cm x 15 cm x 0.5 cm |
| Gewicht | 131 Gramm |
| Format | Softcover |
| ISBN-13 | 9783843391269 |
| Seiten | 76 |