(Non-)homogeneity in Dutch impersonal passives of unaccusatives
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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Language: | English |
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Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti
2011-01-01
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Series: | Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics |
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Online Access: | http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/index.pl/non-homogeneity_in_dutch_impersonal_passives_of_unaccusatives |