Semantic roles and the causative-anticausative alternation: evidence from French change-of-state verbs
Change-of-state verbs are heterogeneous with respect to their occurrence in the causative-anticausative alternation. While some of them are never used as anticausatives (e.g., destroy), others seem to largely favor the anticausative form (e.g., wither). On the basis of corpus data and statistical an...
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De Gruyter
2024-01-01
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| Series: | Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2021-0207 |