On the empirical foundations of the detransitivisation analysis of unaccusatives

Pethő, G., Kardos, É.: On the empirical foundations of the detransitivisation analysis of unaccusatives.
Argumentum (Debr.). 10, 486-518, 2014.

DEA

cím:

szerzők:

Pethő Gergely
Kardos Éva

kiadás éve:

2014

típus:

folyóiratcikk

műfaj:

idegen nyelvű folyóiratközlemény hazai lapban

folyóirat:

Argumentum (ISSN: 1787-3606)

nyelv:

angol

MAB:

bölcsészettudományok, nyelvtudományok

tárgyszavak:

causative-unaccusative alternation, selectional restrictions, derivational morphology

absztrakt:

This paper contributes to the discussion on causative-unaccusative verb pairs in English and Hungarian. It examines numerous assumptions in derivational detransitivisation analyses of such verbs and shows that these assumptions are empirically inadequate. A non-derivational analysis is proposed as an alternative, which seems to be void of the problems that derivational analyses suffer from.