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...

sentence "They fall and die" are unaccusative verbs, since usually they are not responsible for falling or dying but still the verb is intransitive, meaning it...

analysis (called the unaccusative hypothesis), unaccusatives and unergatives form the two subclasses of intransitive verbs. Unaccusative verbs cannot assign...

directly. Examples of anticausative verbs are break, sink, move, etc. Anticausative verbs are a subset of unaccusative verbs. Although the terms are generally...

subject-verb. However, verb-subject is used if the verb is unaccusative or by discourse pragmatics. In Tokelauan, the noun phrases used with verbs are required...

intransitive verbs; unaccusative and unergative. Unaccusative verbs are subdivided into "pure unaccusatives" and alternating unaccusatives (unaccusatives that...

in the perfect system. Defective verb Inchoative verb Reflexive verb Unaccusative verb "deponent". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Merriam-Webster. Pennington...

verbs.: 19  Such verbs are also called labile verbs (or "ergative verbs"). Confusingly, verbs of this type have also been called unaccusative verbs,...

original (PDF) on 2006-10-08. Grahek, Sabina (2002). "Alternating unaccusative verbs in Slovene" (PDF). Leeds Working Papers in Linguistics. 9: 57–72....

frequently used test to distinguish unergative and unaccusative verbs. In Turkish, for example, the verb çalışmak "to work" is unergative and may therefore...

structures underlyingly: unaccusative verb: __ [VP V NP] unergative verb: NP [VP V] The following is an example from English: In (2a) the verb underlyingly takes...

Stripping Subject-auxiliary inversion Subject-verb inversion Topicalization Tough movement Unaccusative verbs V2 word order Verb phrase ellipsis Wh-movement...

the morphology whether the verb in Sentence (8) is an active voice unaccusative verb or a middle voice anticausative verb with active morphology. Since...

express the passive meaning is with middle voice lexical forms or unaccusative verbs, e.g. épül: "being built"/ intransitive (vs. épít "build"/ transitive)...

often a verb or a verb-like word, though this is not universally the case. A verb that is a copula is sometimes called a copulative or copular verb. In English...

the verb to get Case. There are instances of the passive that do not use movement. Not all verbs in English can be passivized. Unaccusative verbs do not...

A separable verb is a verb that is composed of a lexical core and a separable particle. In some sentence positions, the core verb and the particle appear...

Germanic languages, a strong verb is a verb that marks its past tense by means of changes to the stem vowel. A minority of verbs in any Germanic language...

Ergative verb Morphosyntactic alignment Split ergativity Symmetrical voice (aka Austronesian alignment) Transitivity (grammar) Unaccusative verb Unergative...

regular verb is any verb whose conjugation follows the typical pattern, or one of the typical patterns, of the language to which it belongs. A verb whose...

A modal verb is a type of verb that contextually indicates a modality such as a likelihood, ability, permission, request, capacity, suggestion, order,...

verbs. But there is also a sizable number of so-called ergative verbs, which become unaccusative when there is no object. Consequently, these verbs switch...

(Marked nominative alignment) Nominative-accusative language Unaccusative verb Unergative verb Legate, J. A. (2008). Morphological and abstract case. Linguistic...

linguistics, an impersonal verb is one that has no determinate subject. For example, in the sentence "It rains", rain is an impersonal verb and the pronoun it...

"They entered an ancient forest." Intransitive verbs of the type called unaccusative verbs, that is, verbs which have no voluntary agent, such as maneō...

In linguistics, a defective verb is a verb that either lacks a conjugated form or entails incomplete conjugation, and thus cannot be conjugated for certain...

An auxiliary verb (abbreviated aux) is a verb that adds functional or grammatical meaning to the clause in which it occurs, so as to express tense, aspect...

traditional grammar of Modern English, a phrasal verb typically constitutes a single semantic unit consisting of a verb followed by a particle (e.g., turn down...

some linguistics theories, a stative verb is a verb that describes a state of being, in contrast to a dynamic verb, which describes an action. The difference...

intransitive (usually unaccusative) v2's never allow ergative subjects, regardless of the ergative case licensing properties of the V1. All the verbs except honā...