Low applicatives and optional se in Spanish non-anticausative intransitive verbs

<em>This work revolves around a very peculiar set of Spanish verbs (‘caer[se]’, ‘morir[se]’, ‘tropezar[se]’ and ‘encallar[se]’), which optionally allow the clitic ‘se’ without any significant change of meaning. These verbs do not enter the transitive-inchoative alternation (i.e. they are non-a...

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Main Author: Ismael Iván Teomiro García
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Politécnica de Valencia 2013-07-01
Series:Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas
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Online Access:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/rdlyla/article/view/1354