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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Format: | Article |
Language: | deu |
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Bern Open Publishing
2003-01-01
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Series: | Linguistik Online |
Online Access: | https://bop.unibe.ch/linguistik-online/article/view/868 |