(Non-)homogeneity in Dutch impersonal passives of unaccusatives

(Non-)homogeneity in Dutch impersonal passives of unaccusatives

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This paper sheds new light on the behaviour of telic predicates, particularly unaccusatives (opstijgen ‘take off’, vallen ‘fall’), in the Dutch impersonal passive (= ImpersP) construction. Using recently collected data, I show that Zaenen’s (1988, 1993) contention that Dutch ImpersPs are barred from...

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Main Author: Mara van Schaik-Rădulescu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti 2011-05-01
Series:Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
Subjects:
impersonal passive
unaccusative
telicity
event structure
implicit argument
Online Access:http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/BWPL_2011_nr-1_van-Schaik.pdf

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