Anticausatives: Against reflexivization

Julia Horvath; Tal Siloni

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2011.09.006

Anticausatives: Against reflexivization

Julia Horvath^*, Tal Siloni

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Department of Linguistics

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Abstract

Anticausative (unaccusative) verbs are not formed by a reflexivization operation. Contrary to claims advanced in recent studies, there is no evidence that they involve a Cause ingredient either in their lexical semantic representation or in the syntax. A series of arguments show that.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2176-2186
Number of pages	11
Journal	Lingua
Volume	121
Issue number	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2011.09.006
State	Published - Dec 2011

Keywords

Anticausative
Cause
Causing subevent
Reflexive verb
Reflexivization
Unaccusative

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