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Encyclopedia: Unaccusative verb
In linguistics, an unaccusative verb is an intransitive verb whose (syntactic) subject is not a (semantic) agent; that is, it does not actively initiate, or is not actively responsible for, the action...
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Different verbs take different types of complements and assign them to various positions. Two that we will consider here are ergative and unaccusative verbs
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In Japanese, the grammaticality of sentences that appear to violate syntactic rules may signal the presence of an unaccusative verb. In linguistics, an unaccusative verb is an intransitive verb whose (syntactic) subject is not a (semantic) agent; that is, it does not actively initiate, or is not actively responsible...
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Oct 29, 2006 Unaccusative verbs are a subclass of intransitives. Their single arguments denote direct objects in relational grammar and GB,
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1. An unaccusative verb is a verb that has an internal argument (or arguments) but lacks an external argument. In languages that use both have and be as auxiliary verbs for perfect/past tense, it is common for unaccusatives to take be and unergatives to take have.
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A number of references say that this construction uses the word come as an unaccusative intransitive verb (and don't worry: you don't need to remember that because it's a form that's now nearly extinct in the English language [1]). If you're watching for it, you'll find similar constructions in a lot of older works.
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unaccusative verbs and unergative verbs, each associated with a particular although the difference between unaccusative and unergative verbs is...
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Nuclear Stress Rule applied while it was still rightmost in the unaccusative verb phrase headed by “ensue”. Therefore, the Nuclear Stress Rule seems to operate on passive and unaccusative VPs, just as it does on unergative vPs, supporting the proposal that all three are phases.
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In RSVCs, the second verb is an unaccusative verb (either eventive or stative), rather than a transitive verb. Semantically, RSVCs describe a single event, with the second verb characterizing a state that the theme argument comes to be in as a result of the action denoted by the first verb.
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Levin and Rappaport Hovav, 1995). The sentences in (2) use an unaccusative verb, melted. Unaccusatives are intransitive change of state verbs (2a); like unergatives, the transitive counterpart for these verbs is also causative (2b). The sentences in (3) use an object-drop verb, washed;
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