Split-Intransitivity in Swahili and Hittite: An Optimality-Theoretic Perspective

Much research on unaccusativity has been done over the past three-and-a-half decades since the formulation of the Unaccusative Hypothesis (Perlmutter 1978). Researchers have examined the semantics of intransitive verbs as well as their syntax to account for the classification of a verb as either una...

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Main Author: Villa, Tina M
Other Authors: Oliver, Elisabeth L.
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: LSU 2014
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Online Access:http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-11172014-072934/