Ergative diagnostics: temptatio redux

In the past 20 years, a new class of verbs has seen the light of existence: 'unaccusative' or 'ergative' verbs. These verbs are intransitive, but different from the traditional notion of intransitive to the extent that their subject valency behaves like a direct object distributi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Werner Abraham
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Bern Open Publishing 2003-01-01
Series:Linguistik Online
Online Access:https://bop.unibe.ch/linguistik-online/article/view/868