Anticausatives are weak scalar expressions, not reflexive expressions

We discuss conceptual and empirical arguments from Germanic, Romance and Slavic languages against an analysis treating anticausative verbs as derived from their lexical causative counterparts under reflexivization. Instead, we defend the standard account to the semantics of the causative alternation...

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Main Authors: Florian Schäfer, Margot Vivanco
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2016-07-01
Series:Glossa
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Online Access:http://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/36