Abstract
This paper reaffirms the conclusion of Horvath and Siloni (2011a) that unaccusatives - with or without the so-called reflexive morphology - involve no Cause ingredient whatsoever. Arguments based on the distribution of the modifier by itself, negation, and the Greek cause preposition apo show that. Beavers and Koontz-Garboden's (in this issue) counterarguments to Horvath and Siloni are either based on partial data or confounded by independent factors.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 217-230 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Lingua |
Volume | 131 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 2013 |
Keywords
- Anticausative
- By itself diagnostic
- Cause
- Cause-PP
- Reflexivization
- Unaccusative