Anticausatives compete but do not differ in meaning: a French case study
In French as in many other Romance and Germanic languages, verbs undergoing the causative/anticausative alternation divide into two morphological and three distributional classes. With verbs of class A, the anticausative (AC) is morphologically unmarked (∅-ACs), cf. « brûler ». With verbs of...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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EDP Sciences
2014-07-01
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| Series: | SHS Web of Conferences |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20140801245 |