A new argument for the lexical underspecification of causers
This article shows how a systematic impersonalization alternation in Russian provides additional evidence for underspecification in argument structure. In the case of a large class of lexically causative verbs, the causer is realized either as a volitional Agent in the nominative case or as an obliq...
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| Language: | English |
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MIT Press Journals
2019
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