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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2016-07-01
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| Series: | Glossa |
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| Online Access: | http://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/36 |