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...
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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...
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analysis (called the unaccusative hypothesis), unaccusatives and unergatives form the two subclasses of intransitive verbs. Unaccusative verbs cannot assign...
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directly. Examples of anticausative verbs are break, sink, move, etc. Anticausative verbs are a subset of unaccusative verbs. Although the terms are generally...
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intransitive verbs; unaccusative and unergative. Unaccusative verbs are subdivided into "pure unaccusatives" and alternating unaccusatives (unaccusatives that...
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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...
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verbs.: 19 Such verbs are also called labile verbs (or "ergative verbs"). Confusingly, verbs of this type have also been called unaccusative verbs,...
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original (PDF) on 2006-10-08. Grahek, Sabina (2002). "Alternating unaccusative verbs in Slovene" (PDF). Leeds Working Papers in Linguistics. 9: 57–72....
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in the perfect system. Defective verb Inchoative verb Reflexive verb Unaccusative verb "deponent". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Merriam-Webster. Pennington...
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Voice (grammar) (redirect from Voice of the verb)
the morphology whether the verb in Sentence (8) is an active voice unaccusative verb or a middle voice anticausative verb with active morphology. Since...
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express the passive meaning is with middle voice lexical forms or unaccusative verbs, e.g. épül: "being built"/ intransitive (vs. épít "build"/ transitive)...
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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...
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Copula (linguistics) (redirect from Be (verb))
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...
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frequently used test to distinguish unergative and unaccusative verbs. In Turkish, for example, the verb çalışmak "to work" is unergative and may therefore...
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Look up denominal verb in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In grammar, denominal verbs are verbs derived from nouns. Many languages have regular morphological...
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Stripping Subject-auxiliary inversion Subject-verb inversion Topicalization Tough movement Unaccusative verbs V2 word order Verb phrase ellipsis Wh-movement...
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English passive voice (section Non-passivized verbs)
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...
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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...
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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...
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compound verb or complex predicate is a multi-word compound that functions as a single verb. One component of the compound is a light verb or vector...
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A modal verb is a type of verb that contextually indicates a modality such as a likelihood, ability, permission, request, capacity, suggestion, order,...
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Ergative verb Morphosyntactic alignment Split ergativity Symmetrical voice (aka Austronesian alignment) Transitivity (grammar) Unaccusative verb Unergative...
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Dutch grammar (section Verb phrases)
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...
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A predicative verb is a verb that behaves as a grammatical adjective; that is, it predicates (qualifies or informs about the properties of its argument)...
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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...
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In linguistics, a stative verb is a verb that describes a state of being, in contrast to a dynamic verb, which describes an action. The difference can...
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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...
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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...
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(Marked nominative alignment) Nominative-accusative language Unaccusative verb Unergative verb Legate, J. A. (2008). Morphological and abstract case. Linguistic...
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Germanic languages, weak verbs are by far the largest group of verbs, and are therefore often regarded as the norm (the regular verbs). They are distinguished...
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