The English Middle and Inchoative
I will show that the evidence advanced by syntactic approaches to the English middle holds also for some inchoative clauses. Most approaches to the English middle and inchoative, whether syntactic or lexical, define the middle as implying an arbitrary agent and the inchoative as not. This definition...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Kansas, Department of Linguistics
1998-01-01
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| Series: | Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/338 |